Systemic risk management system, systemic risk management method, and storage medium storing systemic risk management program

ABSTRACT

This systemic risk management system  100 A comprises: an important bank designation unit  12  which, from multiple banks involved in interbank loans, designates an important bank on the basis of the smallness of a first bankruptcy scale, which is the scale of bankruptcy of the multiple banks that would be brought about due to the effects of a collapse of prescribed investments, funded by at least one of the multiple banks, in the case of preventing the bank included in the multiple banks from bankrupting due to the effects of the collapse of the aforementioned prescribed investments; and an important loan designation unit  13  which, from one or more interbank loans made by the important bank, designates an important interbank loan on the basis of the smallness of a second bankruptcy scale, which is the scale of bankruptcy of the multiple banks due to the effects of a collapse of the aforementioned investments in the case of preventing bankruptcy of the bank that is the borrower of the interbank loan included in the aforementioned one or more interbank loans and bankruptcy of the important bank caused by said collapse.

TECHNICAL FIELD

The present invention relates to a technology that manages a systemicrisk.

BACKGROUND ART

A risk that the dysfunction of an individual financial institution orthe like spreads to another financial institution or the entirefinancial system is commonly called a systemic risk.

In the following description including example embodiments, the systemicrisk refers to a risk of collapse of the entire financial network, i.e.,a risk of occurrence of very serious chain-reaction bankruptcies, ratherthan a risk of the bankruptcy of an individual bank. The financialnetwork refers to, for example, a graph-like structure representing aninterbank transaction relationship including an interbank loan of funds,as described later.

Examples of technologies relating to systemic risk management aredescribed in NPL 1 to NPL 3.

In the technologies, the financial network is described using amathematical model representing the bankruptcy of a bank caused by thepropagation of losses across banks and the accumulation of the losses.Examples of input information input into the financial network includethe financial affairs, investment and financing, and interbank loans ofbanks included in the financial network. The fundamental function of thesystemic risk management is to estimate the scale of the number ofchain-reaction bankruptcies from the financial network, thereby settingthe estimated scale of the number of the chain-reaction bankruptcies asoutput information. The systemic risk is determined based on the scaleof the number of the chain-reaction bankruptcies. The more the scale ofthe number of the chain-reaction bankruptcies is, the higher thesystemic risk is. In particular, when the scale of the number of thechain-reaction bankruptcies is close to the number of the banks includedin the financial network, the systemic risk can be considered to be sohigh that the entire financial network can collapse.

NPL 1 discloses the most fundamental mathematical model for estimatingthe scale of the number of chain-reaction bankruptcies.

NPL 2 discloses an advanced mathematical model taking, intoconsideration, the problems of the investment, financing, and assetliquidity of banks.

NPL 3 discloses a further advanced mathematical model taking, intoconsideration, the problem of a collective behavior seen in theinvestment and financing of banks.

An example of the models that are based on the technologies of NPL 1 toNPL 3 and estimate the scale of the number of chain-reactionbankruptcies is described below.

The investment and financing amount, interbank loan amount, and capitalbuffer amount of each bank are described in a financial managementtable. The investment and financing amount of each investment andfinancing destination of each bank is recorded in an investment andfinancing management table. The sum of the investment and financingamounts of all investment and financing destinations is equal to theinvestment and financing amount of the financial management table. In aninterbank loan management table, the interbank loan amount of each bankthat is a borrower is recorded for each bank that is a lender. The sumof the interbank loan amounts of all banks that are borrowers is equalto the interbank loan amount of the financial management table. Astructure including banks connected to each other by such interbankloans is referred to as a financial network.

First, an assumption is that one of investment and financingdestinations fails. A bank suffers a loss of which the amount is equalto an investment and financing amount for this investment and financingdestination. If a capital buffer amount is more than the amount of theloss, the bank does not go bankrupt. If all banks do not go bankrupt,the loss of the failure of the investment and financing destination isabsorbed. In addition, the function of a financial network is maintainedwithout change. If the capital buffer amount is less than the amount ofthe loss, the bank goes bankrupt.

An interbank loan made to a borrower bank that becomes a bankrupt bankbecomes irrecoverable. A bank that is a lender suffers the loss of theamount of the interbank loan. If the capital buffer amount is more thanan amount of a loss caused by a failure of an investment and financingdestination and a bankruptcy of a borrower bank, the bank does not gobankrupt. If the capital buffer amount is smaller, the bank results inchain-reaction bankruptcies. A bank that is a lender making a loan tothe bank that goes into the chain-reaction bankruptcies suffers the lossof the amount of the interbank loan. Such a repetition causes the lossto propagate and the chain-reaction bankruptcies to spread out. When thechain no longer spreads out, the chain-reaction bankruptcies end. If thechain-reaction bankruptcies end, the number of banks that go bankrupt istotalized.

The scale of the number of chain-reaction bankruptcies in a case inwhich one of investment and financing destinations fail can be estimatedby the models based on the technologies of NPL 1 to NPL 3. In otherwords, the magnitude of a systemic risk can be calculated.

CITATION LIST Non Patent Literature

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SUMMARY OF INVENTION Technical Problem

The technologies of NPL 1 to NPL 3 enable a calculation of the magnitudeof a systemic risk by estimation of the number of chain-reactionbankruptcies. However, the technologies of NPL 1 to NPL 3 are incapableof determining which bank has finance that should be improved in orderto reduce a systemic risk. In other words, the technologies of NPL 1 toNPL 3 are incapable of designating an important part in relation to asystemic risk in a financial network.

An object of the present invention is to provide a systemic riskmanagement system capable of designating an important part in relationto a systemic risk in a financial network.

Solution to Problem

A systemic risk management system according to an aspect of the presentinvention includes: important bank designation means for designating animportant bank from a plurality of banks in which an interbank loan ismade based on smallness of a first scale of bankruptcies, the firstscale being a scale of bankruptcies of the plurality of banks due to aninfluence of a failure of a predetermined investment and financingdestination on condition of preventing a bankruptcy of a bank includedin the plurality of banks due to the influence of the failure of thepredetermined investment and financing destination in which investmentand financing are made by at least any one of the plurality of banks;and important loan designation means for designating an importantinterbank loan from at least one interbank loan made by the importantbank based on smallness of a second scale of bankruptcies, the secondscale being a scale of bankruptcies of the plurality of banks due to theinfluence of the failure of the predetermined investment and financingdestination on condition of preventing a bankruptcy of the importantbank due to a bankruptcy of a bank being a borrower of an interbank loanincluded in the at least one interbank loan and the failure of thepredetermined investment and financing destination.

A systemic risk management method according to an aspect of the presentinvention includes: designating an important bank from a plurality ofbanks in which an interbank loan is made based on smallness of a firstscale of bankruptcies, the first scale being a scale of bankruptcies ofthe plurality of banks due to an influence of a failure of apredetermined investment and financing destination on condition ofpreventing a bankruptcy of a bank included in the plurality of banks dueto the influence of the failure of the predetermined investment andfinancing destination in which investment and financing are made by atleast any one of the plurality of banks; and designating an importantinterbank loan from at least one interbank loan made by the importantbank based on smallness of a second scale of bankruptcies, the secondscale being a scale of bankruptcies of the plurality of banks due to theinfluence of the failure of the predetermined investment and financingdestination on condition of preventing a bankruptcy of the importantbank due to a bankruptcy of a bank being a borrower of an interbank loanincluded in the at least one interbank loan and the failure of thepredetermined investment and financing destination.

A storage medium according to an aspect of the present invention storesa systemic risk management program that causes a computer to execute:important bank designation processing that designates an important bankfrom a plurality of banks in which an interbank loan is made based onsmallness of a first scale of bankruptcies, the first scale being ascale of bankruptcies of the plurality of banks due to an influence of afailure of a predetermined investment and financing destination oncondition of preventing a bankruptcy of a bank included in the pluralityof banks due to the influence of the failure of the predeterminedinvestment and financing destination in which investment and financingare made by at least any one of the plurality of banks; and importantloan designation processing that designates an important interbank loanfrom at least one interbank loan made by the important bank based onsmallness of a second scale of bankruptcies, the second scale being ascale of bankruptcies of the plurality of banks due to the influence ofthe failure of the predetermined investment and financing destination oncondition of preventing a bankruptcy of the important bank due to abankruptcy of a bank being a borrower of an interbank loan included inthe at least one interbank loan and the failure of the predeterminedinvestment and financing destination. The present invention can also beachieved by the systemic risk management program stored in the storagemedium described above.

Advantageous Effects of Invention

The present invention has the effect of being capable of designating animportant part in relation to a systemic risk in a financial network.

BRIEF DESCRIPTION OF DRAWINGS

FIG. 1 is a block diagram illustrating an example of a configuration ofsystemic risk management systems of first, second, and third exampleembodiments of the present invention.

FIG. 2 is a view schematically illustrating an example of a bankfinancial management table of the first, the second, and the thirdexample embodiments of the present invention.

FIG. 3 is a view schematically illustrating an example of an investmentand financing management table of the first, the second, and the thirdexample embodiments of the present invention.

FIG. 4 is a view schematically illustrating an example of an interbankloan management table of the first, the second, and the third exampleembodiments of the present invention.

FIG. 5 is a view schematically illustrating an example of a firstadditional capital buffer management table of the first exampleembodiment of the present invention.

FIG. 6 is a view schematically illustrating an example of a firstchain-reaction bankruptcy number management table of the first exampleembodiment of the present invention.

FIG. 7 is a view schematically illustrating an example of a secondadditional capital buffer management table of the first exampleembodiment of the present invention.

FIG. 8 is a view schematically illustrating an example of a secondchain-reaction bankruptcy number management table of the first exampleembodiment of the present invention.

FIG. 9 is a flowchart illustrating an example of an operation of asystemic risk management device of the first example embodiment of thepresent invention.

FIG. 10 is a flowchart illustrating an example of an operation of thesystemic risk management device of the first example embodiment of thepresent invention.

FIG. 11 is a view schematically illustrating an example of a firstchain-reaction bankruptcy number management table in the second exampleembodiment of the present invention.

FIG. 12 is a view schematically illustrating an example of a secondchain-reaction bankruptcy number management table in the second exampleembodiment of the present invention.

FIG. 13 is a block diagram illustrating an example of a configuration ofa systemic risk management system of a fourth example embodiment of thepresent invention.

FIG. 14 is a view illustrating an example of a hardware configuration ofa computer with which each systemic risk management device according tothe example embodiments of the present invention can be achieved.

FIG. 15 is a block diagram illustrating another example of theconfiguration of the systemic risk management system of the fourthexample embodiment of the present invention.

FIG. 16 is a flowchart illustrating an example of an operation of thesystemic risk management system according to the fourth exampleembodiment of the present invention.

FIG. 17 is a block diagram illustrating an example of configurations,implemented using a circuit, of the systemic risk management systems ofthe first, the second, and the third example embodiments of the presentinvention.

FIG. 18 is a block diagram illustrating an example of a configuration,implemented using a circuit, of the systemic risk management system ofthe fourth example embodiment of the present invention.

DESCRIPTION OF EMBODIMENTS

A bank commonly makes investment and financing for supplying funds inthe forms of financing and investment to a company and the like. Such abank further makes an interbank loan for loaning funds to another bank.A financial network refers to, for example, a graph-like structurerepresenting an interbank transaction relationship including aninterbank loan of funds, as described above. When the data of thefinancial network is represented by a graph including nodes and an edge,a bank is represented by a node, and an interbank transaction isrepresented by an edge. In the following description, a company or thelike in which investment and financing are made by a bank is referred toas “investment and financing destination.” An invested fund and afinanced fund may be referred to as “investment and financing.” Aninterbank loan of funds is also referred to as “interbank loan.” A fundloaned through an interbank loan may also be referred to as “interbankloan.” A bank that is a lender which loans funds in an interbank loan isalso referred to as “lender.” A bank that is a borrower to which fundsare loaned in an interbank loan is also referred to as “borrower.”

In the description of each example embodiment of the present invention,when an investment and financing destination fails, investment andfinancing in the investment and financing destination are irrecoverable.In other words, the loss of the investment and financing in theinvestment and financing destination is caused. Hereinafter, the loss ofinvestment and financing in an investment and financing destination thatfails is referred to as a direct loss due to the failure of theinvestment and financing destination. The bankruptcy of a bank makinginvestment and financing due to the loss of the investment and financingcaused by the failure of an investment and financing destination isreferred to as “bankruptcy due to failure of investment and financingdestination” or the like.

When a bank that is a borrower of an interbank loan goes bankrupt, theinterbank loan to the bank is irrecoverable. In other words, the loss ofthe interbank loan to the borrower is caused. The bankruptcy of a bankmaking an interbank loan due to the loss of the interbank loan caused bythe bankruptcy of a borrower is referred to as “bankruptcy due tobankruptcy of bank that is borrower” or the like.

A loss referred to as “indirect loss due to failure of investment andfinancing destination” in the following description includes a loss ofan interbank loan to a borrower due to a bankruptcy of a bank that isthe borrower due to a direct loss caused by the failure of an investmentand financing destination. The indirect loss due to the failure of theinvestment and financing destination further includes the loss of theinterbank loan to a borrower caused by the bankruptcy of the bank thatis the borrower due to the indirect loss due to the failure of theinvestment and financing destination or due to the combination of thedirect loss and the indirect loss. “Bankruptcy of bank due to influenceof failure of investment and financing destination” represents abankruptcy of a bank due to at least either a direct loss or an indirectloss due to the failure of an investment and financing destination.“Chain-reaction bankruptcy” represents the bankruptcy of a bank due tothe influence of the failure of the investment and financing destinationdescribed above. “Chain-reaction bankruptcy number” represents thenumber of the bankruptcies of banks due to the influence of the failureof an investment and financing destination, i.e., the number of banksgoing bankrupt due to chain-reaction bankruptcies.

Example embodiments of the present invention will now be described indetail with reference to drawings.

First Example Embodiment

FIG. 1 is a block diagram illustrating an example of a configuration ofa systemic risk management system 100 of a first example embodiment ofthe present invention. In FIG. 1 and other block diagrams describedlater, the directions of sending data are not limited to the directionsof the drawn arrows. In the example illustrated in FIG. 1, the systemicrisk management system 100 of the present example embodiment includes asystemic risk management device 1. The systemic risk management device 1may be implemented as a single device as illustrated in the example inFIG. 1. The systemic risk management device 1 may be implemented as aplurality of devices which cooperatively operate, thereby performing thesame operation as the operation of the systemic risk management device 1implemented as the single device. When the systemic risk managementdevice 1 is implemented as the plurality of devices, the plurality ofdevices may be connected communicably to each other through acommunication network and the like. The communication network isimplemented by at least either wired communication or wirelesscommunication.

The systemic risk management system 100 further includes a bank dataprovision device 2 and an indication device 3. The systemic riskmanagement device 1 is connected communicably to the bank data provisiondevice 2 and the indication device 3 via a communication network and thelike. The bank data provision device 2 and the indication device 3 maybe implemented as the same device.

The systemic risk management device 1 includes a data input unit 10, animportant bank designation unit 12, an important loan designation unit13, a display unit 14, a bank data storage unit 15, a first bankruptcyscale storage unit 16, and a second bankruptcy scale storage unit 17.

The bank data provision device 2 provides bank financial information,investment and financing information, and interbank loan information tothe systemic risk management device 1. The bank financial information isinformation about the financial affairs of a plurality of banks. Thebank financial information includes the amount of the capital buffer,which is a capital that can be used for absorbing a loss, of each of theplurality of banks. The investment and financing information isinformation about the investment and financing of a bank. The investmentand financing information includes the amount of the investment andfinancing made by each bank in each investment and financing destinationof a bank. The interbank loan information is information of an interbankloan which is a loan from a bank that is a lender to a bank that is aborrower. The interbank loan information includes, for each interbankloan, the information of a bank (i.e., lender) that loans funds, theinformation of a bank (i.e., borrower) that borrows the funds from thebank, and the amount of the interbank loan. As described above, afinancial network refers to a graph-like structure representing arelationship of an interbank transaction including an interbank loan.The financial network is represented by the interbank loan information.The bank financial information, the investment and financinginformation, and the interbank loan information are described in detaillater.

Information provided to the systemic risk management device 1 by thebank data provision device 2 may be prepared by, for example, anadministrator of the systemic risk management system 100 and stored inthe bank data provision device 2 in advance. The information provided tothe systemic risk management device 1 by the bank data provision device2 may be information input into the bank data provision device 2 using,for example, an input device (not illustrated) such as a keyboard by,for example, the administrator of the systemic risk management system100.

The indication device 3 sends information indicating an investment andfinancing destination that fails first (i.e., investment and financingdestination ID (identification) of investment and financing destinationthat fails first) to the systemic risk management device 1. Theinvestment and financing destination designated by the investment andfinancing destination ID sent to the systemic risk management device 1is selected by, for example, the administrator of the systemic riskmanagement system 100. The systemic risk management device 1 performs anoperation described below on the assumption that the investment andfinancing destination of which the investment and financing destinationID is sent by the indication device 3 fails. In the followingdescription, the investment and financing destination designated by theinvestment and financing destination ID sent to the systemic riskmanagement device 1 is also referred to as “failed investment andfinancing destination.” The administrator of the systemic riskmanagement system 100 or the like may select the failed investment andfinancing destination from investment and financing destinations inwhich investment and financing are made by at least any one of the banksincluded in the financial network described above. The indication device3 may select the failed investment and financing destination, by apredetermined method, from investment and financing destinations inwhich investment and financing are made by at least any one of the banksincluded in the financial network described above.

The data input unit 10 acquires the bank financial information, theinvestment and financing information, and the interbank loan informationfrom the bank data provision device 2. The data input unit 10 stores thebank financial information, the investment and financing information,and the interbank loan information, which are received, in the bank datastorage unit 15. The data input unit 10 further receives the investmentand financing destination ID from the indication device 3. The datainput unit 10 sends the received investment and financing destination IDto the important bank designation unit 12. The bank financialinformation, the investment and financing information, and the interbankloan information are also referred to as “bank information.”

The bank data storage unit 15 stores the bank financial information, theinvestment and financing information, and the interbank loaninformation.

The important bank designation unit 12 receives the investment andfinancing destination ID of the failed investment and financingdestination from the data input unit 10.

The important bank designation unit 12 specifies (i.e., selects), inturn, a bank included in the plurality of banks of the financialnetwork. The important bank designation unit 12 derives a scale ofbankruptcies of the plurality of banks included in the financial network(also referred to as “first scale of bankruptcies”) due to the influenceof the failure of the failed investment and financing destination oncondition that the bankruptcy of the specified bank due to the influenceof the failure of the failed investment and financing destination isprevented. The important bank designation unit 12 repeats specificationof a bank and derivation of the first scale of bankruptcies until anyunspecified bank becomes absent in the plurality of banks included inthe financial network.

As described above, the important bank designation unit 12 calculatesthe first scale of bankruptcies in a case of specifying each bankincluded in the plurality of banks included in the financial network.The important bank designation unit 12 may calculate the first scale ofthe bankruptcies on the basis of the bank financial information, theinvestment and financing information, and the interbank loan informationstored in the bank data storage unit 15.

The important bank designation unit 12 designates an important bank onthe basis of smallness of the first scale of bankruptcies with regard toeach bank included in the plurality of banks included in the financialnetwork. The important bank designation unit 12 may designate, forexample, a bank with the smallest first scale of bankruptcies as theimportant bank. The important bank designation unit 12 sends theidentifier (i.e., bank ID) of the designated important bank to theimportant loan designation unit 13.

When deriving the scale of the bankruptcies of the plurality of banksincluded in the financial network, the important bank designation unit12 uses, for example, such a model for estimating the scale of thechain-reaction bankruptcy number, as described in Background Art. Inother words, the important bank designation unit 12 uses the model todetermine whether or not each of the plurality of banks included in thefinancial network goes into chain-reaction bankruptcies due to theinfluence of the failure of the failed investment and financingdestination. In such a case, the important bank designation unit 12 mayderive the chain-reaction bankruptcy number of banks due to theinfluence of the failure of the failed investment and financingdestination, and may further derive an index value representing thescale of the bankruptcies of the plurality of banks as, for example, thescale of the bankruptcies of the plurality of banks on the basis of thederived chain-reaction bankruptcy number, for example, in a mannerdescribed below.

The important bank designation unit 12 derives the chain-reactionbankruptcy number due to the influence of the failure of the failedinvestment and financing destination for each sample. The important bankdesignation unit 12 may derive the chain-reaction bankruptcy number ofthe chain-reaction bankruptcies for each sample on the basis of the bankfinancial information, the bank investment and financing information,the interbank loan information, and the investment and financingdestination ID of the failed investment and financing destination. Theimportant bank designation unit 12 may use, for example, such a model asdescribed in Background Art to derive the chain-reaction bankruptcynumber. The important bank designation unit 12 determines the bankruptcyof a bank by comparing the amount of a loss with the amount of thecapital buffer of the bank, for example, in a manner described below.The important bank designation unit 12 sets, as the amount of the loss,the sum of the amount of investment and financing made in a failedinvestment and financing destination by the bank of which the bankruptcyis determined and the amount of the interbank loan made by the bank to abank that is a borrower determined to have already gone bankrupt.

For example, the important bank designation unit 12 first designatesbanks making investment and financing in a failed investment andfinancing destination. The important bank designation unit 12 determineswhether or not each of the designated banks goes bankrupt due to theloss, caused by the failure of the failed investment and financingdestination, of investment and financing in the failed investment andfinancing destination.

The important bank designation unit 12 further designates a bank makingan interbank loan to a bank determined to go bankrupt (i.e., a bank thatis the lender of an interbank loan to a bank that is a borrowerdetermined to go bankrupt). The important bank designation unit 12determines whether or not the designated bank goes bankrupt on the basisof the losses of the investment and financing in the failed investmentand financing destination and the interbank loan of the borrower thatgoes bankrupt. The important bank designation unit 12 repeats theoperation of designating a bank making an interbank loan to a bank newlydetermined to go bankrupt and determining whether or not the designatedbank goes bankrupt until any bank newly determined to go bankruptbecomes absent.

When any bank newly determined to go bankrupt becomes absent, theimportant bank designation unit 12 totalizes, as the chain-reactionbankruptcy number, the number of the banks determined to go bankrupt.

The bankruptcy of a bank due to at least either the failure of a failedinvestment and financing destination or the bankruptcy of a bank that isa borrower of an interbank loan is a chain-reaction bankruptcy. The endof the chain of losses (and chain-reaction bankruptcies) represents thatany bank newly determined to go bankrupt becomes absent. The number ofbanks determined to go bankrupt when any bank newly determined to gobankrupt becomes absent (i.e., when the chain of losses ends) is thechain-reaction bankruptcy number.

For example, a sufficient capital buffer may be further added to thecapital buffer of a bank in order to prevent the bankruptcy of the bankdue to the influence of the failure of a failed investment and financingdestination. The amount of a loss estimated to be suffered by the bankdue to the influence of the failed investment and financing destinationcan be considered as at most the sum of the amount of investment andfinancing in the failed investment and financing destination and thetotal amount of interbank loans made to other banks. Accordingly, thebankruptcy of the bank due to the influence of the failure of the failedinvestment and financing destination can be prevented by adding, to thecapital buffer of the bank, a capital buffer of an amount that is thesum of the amount of the investment and financing in the failedinvestment and financing destination and the total amount of theinterbank loans made to the other banks. In other words, the amount ofthe sufficient capital buffer described above is the sum of the amountof the investment and financing in the failed investment and financingdestination and the total amount of the interbank loans made to theother banks.

In order to derive the scale of bankruptcies on condition of preventingthe bankruptcy of a specified bank due to the influence of the failureof a failed investment and financing destination, the important bankdesignation unit 12 may temporarily make, for example, to data used forthe derivation, a modification in which the specified bank is notdetermined to go into chain-reaction bankruptcies. Examples of suchmodifications include addition of the sufficient capital bufferdescribed above to the capital buffer of the specified bank. Theimportant bank designation unit 12 may use the data to which theabove-described modification is made (for example, data to which amodification in which the sufficient capital buffer described above isadded to the capital buffer of the specified bank is made) to derive thescale of the above-described bankruptcies. The important bankdesignation unit 12 may cancel the above-described modification afterthe derivation of the scale of the above-described bankruptcies withregard to the specified bank. For example, the important bankdesignation unit 12 may subtract the added capital buffer from thecapital buffer of the specified bank. In the description of the exampleembodiments of the present invention, a capital buffer temporarily addedto the capital buffer of a bank when the scale of the bankruptcies ofplurality of banks included in a financial network is derived isreferred to as an additional capital buffer. The amount of thesufficient capital buffer described above (i.e., the sum of the amountof investment and financing in a failed investment and financingdestination and the total amount of interbank loans made to other banks)is referred to as “first additional capital buffer amount” or “amount offirst additional capital buffer.”

When the scale of bankruptcies is derived on condition of preventing thebankruptcy of a specified bank due to the influence of the failure of afailed investment and financing destination, the important bankdesignation unit 12 may determine that the selected bank does not gobankrupt, for example, regardless of the amount of the loss of thespecified bank. For example, even if it is determined that the specifiedbank goes bankrupt, the important bank designation unit 12 may continuethe determination of chain-reaction bankruptcies without dealing withthe interbank loan made to the specified bank as a loss. However, in theexample embodiments of the present invention, a case in which theimportant bank designation unit 12 performs the derivation of the scaleof bankruptcies, including the determination of chain-reactionbankruptcies, after the temporal addition of the amount of the firstadditional capital buffer to the amount of the capital buffer of thespecified bank, is described.

For example, upon selecting a bank, the important bank designation unit12 extracts the failed investment and financing destination, the amountof investment and financing made in the failed investment and financingdestination, the borrower of the interbank loan, and the amount of theinterbank loan, of the selected bank. The important bank designationunit 12 may store the extracted amount of the investment and financingand the extracted amount of the interbank loan as an additional capitalbuffer amount in the first bankruptcy scale storage unit 16. Theinformation of the additional capital buffer amount of the bank storedin the first bankruptcy scale storage unit 16 is also referred to as“first additional capital buffer information.”

The important bank designation unit 12 may derive, as the first scale ofthe bankruptcies, an index value representing the first scale ofbankruptcies (also referred to as “first index value”). The first indexvalue is, for example, the number of banks, among plurality of banksincluded in a financial network, that go bankrupt due to the influenceof the failure of a failed investment and financing destination underthe condition that the bankruptcy of a specified bank due to theinfluence of the failure of the failed investment and financingdestination is prevented. In the following description, the conditionthat the bankruptcy of the specified bank due to the influence of thefailure of the failed investment and financing destination is preventedis referred to as “first condition.” In the example embodiments of thepresent invention, the derivation of the first index value performedunder the first condition by the important bank designation unit 12 isthe derivation of the first index value in the state of adding the firstadditional capital buffer amount to the amount of the capital buffer ofthe specified bank. In other words, the first index value is, forexample, the chain-reaction bankruptcy number due to the influence ofthe failure of the failed investment and financing destination under thefirst condition in the plurality of banks included in the financialnetwork. The first index value may be an index value that is not theabove-described chain-reaction bankruptcy number, as described below.The important bank designation unit 12 stores information representingthe derived first scale of bankruptcies (for example, first index value)in the first bankruptcy scale storage unit 16. In the followingdescription, the information representing the first scale ofbankruptcies is also referred to as “first bankruptcy scaleinformation.” In particular, when the first scale of bankruptcies isrepresented by the chain-reaction bankruptcy number, the informationrepresenting the first scale of bankruptcies is also referred to as“first chain-reaction bankruptcy information.”

The first bankruptcy scale storage unit 16 stores the first additionalcapital buffer information and the first bankruptcy scale information(for example, first chain-reaction bankruptcy information).

The important loan designation unit 13 receives the bank ID of thedesignated important bank. The important loan designation unit 13specifies (i.e., selects) one interbank loan from the interbank loans ofthe important bank, designated based on the interbank loan information.The important loan designation unit 13 derives the scale of thebankruptcies of a plurality of banks included in the financial network(referred to as “second scale of bankruptcies”) due to the influence ofthe failure of a failed investment and financing destination oncondition of preventing the bankruptcy of the important bank due to thebankruptcy of the borrower of the specified interbank loan and thefailure of a failed financing destination. The important loandesignation unit 13 may repeat specification of an interbank loan andderivation of the second scale of bankruptcies until any interbank loanthat is not specified becomes absent in the interbank loans of theimportant bank. As described above, the important loan designation unit13 derives the second scale of bankruptcies in the case of specifyingeach of the interbank loans of the important bank. The important loandesignation unit 13 may derive the second scale of bankruptcies on thebasis of the bank financial information, the investment and financinginformation, and the interbank loan information which are stored in thebank data storage unit 15.

The important loan designation unit 13 designates an important interbankloan on the basis of the smallness of the second scale of bankruptcieswith regard to each of the interbank loans of the important bank. Theimportant loan designation unit 13 may designate, as the importantinterbank loan, for example, the interbank loan with the smallest secondscale of bankruptcies. The important loan designation unit 13 sends thebank ID of the important bank and the identifier of the designatedimportant interbank loan (i.e., loan ID) to the display unit 14. Theloan ID may be the combination of the bank ID of a bank that is a lenderand the bank ID of a bank that is a borrower. The loan ID may be anidentifier which is assigned to each of the interbank loans, and may notbe the combination of the bank ID of a bank that is a lender and thebank ID of a bank that is a borrower.

Similarly to the important bank designation unit 12, the important loandesignation unit 13 uses, for example, such a model for estimating thescale of the chain-reaction bankruptcy number, as described inBackground Art, when deriving the scale of the bankruptcies of theplurality of banks included in the financial network. In other words,the important loan designation unit 13 determines, by using the model,whether or not each of the plurality of banks included in the financialnetwork goes into chain-reaction bankruptcies due to the influence ofthe failure of the failed investment and financing destination. A methodof deriving the chain-reaction bankruptcies of banks and thechain-reaction bankruptcy number of the banks by the important loandesignation unit 13 may be the same as the above-described method ofderiving the chain-reaction bankruptcies of banks and the chain-reactionbankruptcy number of the banks by the important bank designation unit12.

For example, a sufficient capital buffer may be added to the capitalbuffer of a bank in order to prevent the bankruptcy of the bank due tothe failure of the failed investment and financing destination and thebankruptcy of the client of the specified interbank transaction. Theamount of a loss estimated to be suffered by the bank due to the failedinvestment and financing destination is the amount of the investment andfinancing made in the failed investment and financing destination. Theamount of a loss estimated to be suffered by the bank due to thebankruptcy of a borrower of an interbank loan, to which the fund isloaned by the bank, is the amount of the interbank loan. Accordingly,the bankruptcy of the bank due to the failure of the failed investmentand financing destination and the bankruptcy of the bank that is theborrower of the specified interbank loan can be prevented by adding, tothe capital buffer of the bank, a capital buffer that is the sum of theamount of the investment and financing in the failed investment andfinancing destination and the amount of the specified interbank loan. Inother words, the sufficient capital buffer described above is the sum ofthe amount of the investment and financing in the failed investment andfinancing destination and the amount of the specified interbank loan.

The important loan designation unit 13 may perform such an operation asdescribed below in order to derive the scale of bankruptcies in oncondition of preventing the bankruptcy of the important bank due to thefailure of the failed investment and financing destination and thebankruptcy of the bank that is the borrower of the specified interbankloan. The important loan designation unit 13 may temporarily make, forexample, to data used for the derivation, a modification in which theimportant bank is not determined to go into chain-reaction bankruptcies.Examples of such modifications include the addition of the sufficientcapital buffer described above to the capital buffer of the importantbank. The important loan designation unit 13 calculates the sufficientcapital buffer described above with regard to the specified interbankloan. The important loan designation unit 13 makes the above-describedmodification to the data used for the derivation. The important loandesignation unit 13 may use the data to which the above-describedmodification is made (for example, data to which a modification in whichthe sufficient capital buffer described above is added to the capitalbuffer of the important bank is made) to derive the scale of theabove-described bankruptcies. The important loan designation unit 13 maycancel the above-described modification after the derivation of thescale of the above-described bankruptcies with regard to the specifiedinterbank loan. For example, the important loan designation unit 13 maysubtract the added capital buffer from the capital buffer of theimportant bank. In the description of the example embodiments of thepresent invention, a capital buffer temporarily added to the capitalbuffer of a bank when the scale of the bankruptcies of plurality ofbanks included in a financial network is derived is referred to as anadditional capital buffer. The amount of the sufficient capital bufferdescribed above (i.e., the sum of the amount of investment and financingin a failed investment and financing destination and the amount of thespecified interbank loan) is referred to as “second additional capitalbuffer amount” or “amount of second additional capital buffer.”

The important loan designation unit 13 may also operate as describedbelow when deriving the scale of bankruptcies on condition of preventingthe bankruptcy of the important bank due to the failure of the failedinvestment and financing destination and the bankruptcy of the borrowerof the specified interbank loan. For example, the important loandesignation unit 13 may always set, at zero, the amount of the loss ofthe important bank due to the failure of the failed investment andfinancing destination and the bankruptcy of the borrower of thespecified interbank loan. However, in the example embodiments of thepresent invention, a case in which the important loan designation unit13 performs the derivation of the scale of bankruptcies, including thedetermination of chain-reaction bankruptcies after the temporal additionof the amount of the second additional capital buffer to the amount ofthe capital buffer of the important bank, is described.

In response to, for example, receiving the bank ID of the importantbank, the important loan designation unit 13 extracts the investment andfinancing destination and the amount of investment and financing in theinvestment and financing destination, of the important bank. In responseto, for example, selecting an interbank loan, the important loandesignation unit 13 may further extract the borrower of the selectedinterbank loan and the amount of the interbank loan, of the importantbank. The important bank designation unit 12 may store the extractedamount of the investment and financing and the extracted amount of theinterbank loan as an additional capital buffer amount in the secondbankruptcy scale storage unit 17. The information of the additionalcapital buffer amount of the bank, stored in the second bankruptcy scalestorage unit 17, is also referred to as “second additional capitalbuffer information.”

The important loan designation unit 13 may derive an index valuerepresenting the second scale of bankruptcies (also referred to as“second index value”) as the second scale of the bankruptcies. Thesecond index value is, for example, the number of banks, among theplurality of banks included in the financial network, that go bankruptdue to the influence of the failure of the failed investment andfinancing destination under the condition that the bankruptcy of theimportant bank due to the failure of the failed investment and financingdestination and the bankruptcy of the borrower of the selected interbankloan is prevented. In the following description, the condition thatbankruptcy of the important bank due to the failure of the failedinvestment and financing destination and the bankruptcy of the borrowerof the selected interbank loan is prevented is referred to as “secondcondition.” In each example embodiment of the present invention, thederivation of the second index value performed under the secondcondition by the important loan designation unit 13 is the derivation ofthe second index value in the state of adding the second additionalcapital buffer amount to the amount of the capital buffer of thespecified bank. In other words, the second index value is, for example,the chain-reaction bankruptcy number due to the influence of the failureof the failed investment and financing destination under the secondcondition in the plurality of banks included in the financial network.The second index value may be an index value that is not theabove-described chain-reaction bankruptcy number, as described below.The important loan designation unit 13 stores information representingthe derived second scale of bankruptcies (for example, second indexvalue) in the second bankruptcy scale storage unit 17. In the followingdescription, the information representing the second scale ofbankruptcies is also referred to as “second bankruptcy scaleinformation.” In particular, when the second scale of bankruptcies isrepresented by the chain-reaction bankruptcy number, the informationrepresenting the second scale of bankruptcies is also referred to as“second chain-reaction bankruptcy information.”

The second bankruptcy scale storage unit 17 stores the second additionalcapital buffer information and the second bankruptcy scale information(for example, second chain-reaction bankruptcy information).

The display unit 14 receives the bank ID of the important bank andinformation (i.e., loan ID) designating the designated importantinterbank loan from the important loan designation unit 13. The displayunit 14 displays the important bank represented by the received bank IDand the designated important interbank loan represented by the receivedloan ID on, for example, a display device or the like (not illustrated).

Data stored in the bank data storage unit 15, the first bankruptcy scalestorage unit 16, and the second bankruptcy scale storage unit 17 may bestored, for example, in the form of a table. The data stored in the formof a table may be recorded as the table on, for example, a relationaldatabase. The data stored in the form of a table may be recorded as, forexample, a file in text format.

For example, the bank financial information stored in the bank datastorage unit 15 may be stored as a bank financial management table inthe form of a table in the bank data storage unit 15. The bank financialinformation is, for example, a combination of the bank ID, investmentand financing amount, interbank loan amount, and capital buffer amountof each of the banks included in the plurality of banks included in thefinancial network.

FIG. 2 is a view schematically illustrating an example of the bankfinancial management table. In the bank financial management table,entries for each of the banks are made in a row. A value in each item of“BANK ID”, “INVESTMENT AND FINANCING AMOUNT”, “INTERBANK LOAN AMOUNT”,and “CAPITAL BUFFER AMOUNT” is recorded for each bank (i.e., each row).The investment and financing amount includes the amounts of all assetssuch as general loans and securities investments except the amount of aloan due to an interbank loan. When an investment and financingdestination fails, an asset price may become zero, whereby a bank maysuffer a loss equivalent to an investment and financing amount. Theinterbank loan amount is the amount of a loan due to an interbank loan.The capital buffer amount is the amount of a capital buffer indicating acapital that need not be paid back and can be immediately used forabsorbing a loss. The capital buffer amount is ranked as a core equitycapital in a narrow sense.

A bank ID which is an identifier that is capable of individuallydesignating each bank and is assigned in advance to each bank isrecorded in the item of “BANK ID.” The bank ID may be represented by acharacter string. The bank ID may be a code number that is assigned inadvance to a bank and is unique to the bank. The bank ID may be a bankname, an abbreviated name unique to the bank, or the like. The totalamount of the investment and financing held by the bank is recorded inthe item of “INVESTMENT AND FINANCING AMOUNT.” The total amount of theinterbank loans held by the bank is recorded in the item of “INTERBANKLOAN AMOUNT.” The amount of the capital buffer held by the bank isrecorded in the item of “CAPITAL BUFFER AMOUNT.”

The investment and financing information stored in the bank data storageunit 15 may be stored as an investment and financing management table ina form of a table in the bank data storage unit 15. The investment andfinancing information is, for example, a combination of the bank ID, theinvestment and financing destination ID of the investment and financingdestination, and the investment and financing amount in the investmentand financing destination, of each of the banks included in theplurality of banks included in the financial network.

FIG. 3 is a view schematically illustrating an example of the investmentand financing management table. Referring to FIG. 3, entries are made ina row for each of the combinations of banks and investment and financingdestinations in the investment and financing management table. A valuein each item of “BANK ID”, “investment and financing destination”, and“investment and financing amount” is recorded for each of thecombinations of the banks and the investment and financing destinations.The bank ID of a bank making investment and financing is recorded in theitem of “BANK ID.” The same bank IDs as the bank IDs used in the bankfinancial management table are used in the investment and financingmanagement table and each table described below. An investment andfinancing destination ID which is an identifier that is capable ofindividually designating each of the investment and financingdestinations and is assigned in advance to each of the investment andfinancing destinations is recorded in the item of “INVESTMENT ANDFINANCING DESTINATION.” The investment and financing destination ID maybe a code symbol that is assigned to an investment and financingdestination and is unique to the investment and financing destination.The investment and financing destination ID may be the name of theinvestment and financing destination, an abbreviated name unique to theinvestment and financing destination, or the like. The amount of theinvestment and financing in the investment and financing destinationheld by the bank (i.e., the amount of funds invested and financed in theinvestment and financing destination by the bank) is recorded in theitem of “INVESTMENT AND FINANCING AMOUNT.”

The interbank loan information stored in the bank data storage unit 15may be stored as an interbank loan management table in a form of a tablein the bank data storage unit 15. The interbank loan information is, forexample, a combination of the bank ID, the bank ID of a bank that is aborrower of an interbank loan, and the amount of the interbank loan, ofeach of the banks included in the plurality of banks included in thefinancial network.

FIG. 4 is a view schematically illustrating an example of the interbankloan management table. Referring to FIG. 4, entries are made in a rowfor each of the combinations of banks that are lenders and banks thatare borrowers in the interbank loan management table. A value in eachitem of “BANK ID OF LENDER BANK”, “BANK ID OF BORROWER BANK”, and“INTERBANK LOAN AMOUNT” is recorded for each of the combinations of thebanks that are lenders and the banks that are borrowers. The bank ID ofa bank that is a lender of an interbank loan is recorded in the item of“BANK ID OF LENDER BANK.” The bank ID of a bank that is a borrower of aninterbank loan is recorded in the item of “BANK ID OF BORROWER BANK.”The same bank IDs as the bank IDs used in the bank financial managementtable and the investment and financing management table are also used inthe interbank loan management table. The amount of an interbank loanwhich is a fund loaned to a bank that is a borrower by a bank that is alender is recorded in “investment and financing amount.”

The first additional capital buffer information stored in the firstbankruptcy scale storage unit 16 may be stored as a first additionalcapital buffer management table in a form of a table in the firstbankruptcy scale storage unit 16. The first additional capital bufferinformation includes a combination of a value including the failedinvestment and financing destination ID and an additional capital bufferamount equal to the amount of the investment and financing in the failedinvestment, of a selected bank. The first additional capital bufferinformation further includes a combination of the bank ID of a bank thatis a borrower of the interbank loan and an additional capital bufferamount equal to the amount of the interbank loan, of the selected bank.

FIG. 5 is a view schematically illustrating an example of the firstadditional capital buffer management table. Referring to FIG. 5, entriesare made in a row for each target of an additional capital buffer in aspecified bank in the first additional capital buffer management table.A value in each item of “TARGET OF additional CAPITAL BUFFER” and“additional capital buffer amount” is recorded for each target of theadditional capital buffer. A value representing the kind of a possibleloss which is a target absorbed by the additional capital buffer isrecorded in the item of “TARGET OF ADDITIONAL CAPITAL BUFFER.”

Examples of the loss which is the target absorbed by the additionalcapital buffer in the first additional capital buffer management tableinclude the loss of investment and financing in an investment andfinancing destination assumed to cause an initial loss due to thefailure of the investment and financing destination. Examples of theloss which is the target absorbed by the additional capital buffer inthe first additional capital buffer management table also include a lossdue to all interbank loans held by a specified bank. The investment andfinancing in the investment and financing destination assumed to causean initial loss due to the failure of the investment and financingdestination are the investment and financing in the failed investmentand financing destination described above. All the interbank loans heldby the specified bank are all interbank loans made by the specified bankdescribed above as the lender.

The recorded value representing the kind of the possible loss may be,for example, a value capable of designating an investment and financingdestination in which investment and financing that may cause a loss aremade. The value capable of designating the investment and financingdestination may be a value including the investment and financingdestination ID of the investment and financing destination. The valuerepresenting the kind of the possible loss may be, for example, a valuecapable of designating a bank that is a borrower of an interbank loanthat may cause a loss. The value capable of designating the bank as theborrower may be a value including the bank ID of the bank that is theborrower.

The amount of an additional capital buffer required when the possibleloss is absorbed by the additional capital buffer is recorded in theitem of “ADDITIONAL CAPITAL BUFFER AMOUNT.” In the example illustratedin FIG. 5, the investment and financing destination ID of the failedinvestment and financing destination is “C.” For example, the amount ofan additional capital buffer required for absorbing a loss suffered dueto investment and financing when the investment and financingdestination C fails is 35. For example, the amount of an additionalcapital buffer required for absorbing a loss suffered due to aninterbank loan when the bank B2 that is a borrower goes bankrupt is 12.Such an additional capital buffer amount is equal to an investment andfinancing amount recorded in the investment and financing managementtable or an interbank loan amount recorded in the interbank loanmanagement table.

The important bank designation unit 12 may calculate the firstadditional investment buffer amount described above by totalizing theadditional capital buffer amounts recorded in the first additionalcapital buffer management table.

The first chain-reaction bankruptcy information stored in the firstbankruptcy scale storage unit 16 may be stored as a first chain-reactionbankruptcy number management table in a form of a table in the firstbankruptcy scale storage unit 16. The first chain-reaction bankruptcyinformation includes, for example, a combination of the bank ID and thefirst chain-reaction bankruptcy number on condition that the bankdesignated by the bank ID is a specified bank, of each of the banksincluded in the plurality of banks of the financial network. The firstchain-reaction bankruptcy information may include, for example, acombination of a value representing that no specified bank exists andthe chain-reaction bankruptcy number on condition that no specified bankexists.

FIG. 6 is a view schematically representing an example of the firstchain-reaction bankruptcy number management table. Referring to FIG. 6,entries are made in a row for each bank in the chain-reaction bankruptcynumber management table. A value in each item of “SPECIFIED BANK” and“CHAIN-REACTION BANKRUPTCY NUMBER” is recorded for each of the banks.The bank ID of a bank specified when the first chain-reaction bankruptcynumber is derived under the first condition described above is recordedin the item of “SPECIFIED BANK.” The derived first chain-reactionbankruptcy number is recorded in the item of “CHAIN-REACTION BANKRUPTCYNUMBER.” The chain-reaction bankruptcy number due to the influence ofthe failure of the failed investment and financing destination oncondition that any bank of which the bankruptcy due to the influence ofthe failure of the failed investment and financing destination describedabove is prevented does not exist is recorded as the value of“chain-reaction bankruptcy number” in a case in which the bank ID is“none.”

As described above, the important bank designation unit 12 of thepresent example embodiment first adds the total amount of the additionalcapital buffer amounts of the specified bank, recorded in the firstadditional capital buffer management table, to the capital buffer amountof the specified bank when deriving the first chain-reaction bankruptcynumber. Accordingly, in FIG. 6, the name of the item of “SPECIFIED BANK”may also be “BANK WITH INCREASED CAPITAL BUFFER.”

The important bank designation unit 12 may derive the chain-reactionbankruptcy number without adding the first additional capital buffer tothe capital buffer of any bank. The important bank designation unit 12may record the chain-reaction bankruptcy number derived in such a manneras the value of “chain-reaction bankruptcy number” in a case in whichthe bank ID is “none” in the first chain-reaction bankruptcy numbermanagement table.

The second additional capital buffer information stored in the secondbankruptcy scale storage unit 17 may be stored as a second additionalcapital buffer management table in a form of a table in the secondbankruptcy scale storage unit 17. The second additional capital bufferinformation includes, for example, a combination of a value includingthe investment and financing destination ID of a failed investment andfinancing destination and the amount of an additional capital bufferthat is equal to the amount of investment and financing made in thefailed investment and financing destination by the bank designated asthe important bank. The second additional capital buffer informationfurther includes, for example, a combination of a value including thebank ID of a bank that is a borrower of a specified interbank loan madeby the bank designated as the important bank and the amount of anadditional capital buffer that is equal to the amount of the interbankloan.

FIG. 7 is a view schematically illustrating an example of the secondadditional capital buffer management table. Referring to FIG. 7, entriesare made in a row for each target of an additional capital buffer in theimportant bank in the second additional capital buffer management table.A value in each item of “TARGET OF ADDITIONAL CAPITAL BUFFER” and“ADDITIONAL CAPITAL BUFFER AMOUNT” is recorded for each target of theadditional capital buffer. A value representing the kind of a possibleloss which is a target absorbed by the additional capital buffer isrecorded in the item of “TARGET OF ADDITIONAL CAPITAL BUFFER.” The valuerepresenting the kind of the possible loss may be set in the same manneras the manner of the value representing the kind of the possible loss inthe first additional capital buffer management table illustrated in FIG.5.

Examples of the loss which is the target absorbed by the additionalcapital buffer in the second additional capital buffer management tableinclude the loss of investment and financing in an investment andfinancing destination assumed to cause an initial loss due to thefailure of the investment and financing destination. Examples of theloss which is the target absorbed by the additional capital buffer inthe second additional capital buffer management table also include aloss due to a specified interbank loan. The investment and financing inthe investment and financing destination assumed to cause an initialloss due to the failure of the investment and financing destination arethe investment and financing in the failed investment and financingdestination described above. The interbank loan by the specifiedinterbank loan is the specified interbank loan made by theabove-described important bank as the lender.

The amount of an additional capital buffer required when the possibleloss is absorbed by the additional capital buffer is recorded in theitem of “ADDITIONAL CAPITAL BUFFER AMOUNT.”

In the example illustrated in FIG. 7, the investment and financingdestination ID of the failed investment and financing destination is“C.” A borrower of the specified interbank loan is a bank of which thebank ID is “B2.”

The important loan designation unit 13 may calculate the secondadditional investment buffer amount described above by totalizing theadditional capital buffer amounts recorded in the second additionalcapital buffer management table.

The second chain-reaction bankruptcy information stored in the secondbankruptcy scale storage unit 17 may be stored as a secondchain-reaction bankruptcy number management table in a form of a tablein the second bankruptcy scale storage unit 17. The secondchain-reaction bankruptcy information includes, for example, acombination of the bank ID of the bank that is the borrower of thespecified interbank loan and the second chain-reaction bankruptcy numberderived on condition that the interbank loan is specified. The secondchain-reaction bankruptcy information further includes a combination ofa value representing that any bank that is the borrower of the specifiedinterbank loan does not exist and the chain-reaction bankruptcy numberon condition that any specified interbank loan does not exist.

FIG. 8 is a view schematically illustrating an example of the secondchain-reaction bankruptcy number management table. Referring to FIG. 8,entries are made in a row for each of the specified interbank loans heldby the important bank in the second chain-reaction bankruptcy numbermanagement table. A value in each item of “BORROWER OF SPECIFIEDINTERBANK LOAN” and “CHAIN-REACTION BANKRUPTCY NUMBER” is recorded foreach of the specified interbank loans. The bank ID of a bank that is aborrower of the specified interbank loan is recorded in “borrower ofspecified interbank loan.”

The derived second chain-reaction bankruptcy number is recorded in theitem of “CHAIN-REACTION BANKRUPTCY NUMBER.” For example, thechain-reaction bankruptcy number due to the influence of the failure ofthe failed investment and financing destination on condition that anyadditional capital buffer that absorbs the loss of the interbank loan isnot added to the capital buffer of the important bank may be recorded asthe value of “chain-reaction bankruptcy number” in a case in which thebank ID is “none.” For example, the chain-reaction bankruptcy number dueto the influence of the failure of the failed investment and financingdestination on condition that any additional capital buffer is not addedat all to the capital buffer of the important bank may be recorded asthe value of “chain-reaction bankruptcy number” in a case in which thebank ID is “none.”

The important loan designation unit 13 may derive the chain-reactionbankruptcy number without adding the additional capital buffer thatabsorbs the loss of the interbank loan to the capital buffer of theimportant bank. The important loan designation unit 13 may derive thechain-reaction bankruptcy number without adding any additional capitalbuffer at all to the capital buffer of the important bank. The importantloan designation unit 13 may record the chain-reaction bankruptcy numberderived in such a manner as the value of “chain-reaction bankruptcynumber” in a case in which the bank ID is “none” in the secondchain-reaction bankruptcy number management table.

A case in which the systemic risk management device 1 deals with eachtable of information (for example, bank financial information or thelike) that is also recorded as the tables described above as theabove-described table in which the information is recorded in a form ofa table (bank financial management table in which bank financialinformation is recorded, or the like) is described below.

The operation of the systemic risk management device 1 of the presentexample embodiment will be described next in detail with reference todrawings.

FIG. 9 and FIG. 10 are flowcharts representing an example of anoperation of the systemic risk management device 1 of the presentexample embodiment.

Referring to FIG. 9, first, the data input unit 10 receives bank datafrom the bank data provision device 2 (step S101). The bank data is, forexample, the bank financial management table, the investment andfinancing management table, and the interbank loan management table,described above. The data input unit 10 stores the received bank data inthe bank data storage unit 15.

The data input unit 10 receives the identifier of an investment andfinancing destination that causes an initial loss (i.e., investment andfinancing destination ID of failed investment and financing destination)from the indication device 3 (step S102). The data input unit 10 sendsthe received investment and financing destination ID to the importantbank designation unit 12.

The important bank designation unit 12 specifies, for example, a bankthat is not specified yet from the banks of which the bank IDs areincluded in the bank financial management table stored in the bank datastorage unit 15 (step S103). Banks included in a financial network arethe banks of which the bank IDs are included in the bank financialmanagement table stored in the bank data storage unit 15. The importantbank designation unit 12 may specify, in turn, the bank IDs included inthe bank financial management table.

The important bank designation unit 12 calculates the chain-reactionbankruptcy number on condition that the bankruptcy of the specified bankdue to the influence of the failure of the failed investment andfinancing destination is prevented (step S104).

The important bank designation unit 12 generates, for example, a firstadditional capital buffer management table for the specified bank. Theimportant bank designation unit 12 stores the generated first additionalcapital buffer management table in, for example, the first bankruptcyscale storage unit 16. The important bank designation unit 12 may storethe first additional capital buffer management table.

The important bank designation unit 12 extracts the amount of theinvestment and financing in the failed investment destination from theinvestment and financing management table. The important bankdesignation unit 12 further extracts the borrowers and amounts of allinterbank loans held by the specified bank from the interbank loanmanagement table. As described above, an interbank loan held by thespecified bank is an interbank loan made by the specified bank as alender. The important bank designation unit 12 records, for example, acombination of the investment and financing destination ID of theextracted failed investment and financing destination and the extractedamount of the investment and financing in the failed investmentdestination, and a combination of the bank ID of the bank that is theextracted borrower of the interbank loan and the extracted amount of theinterbank loan, in the first additional capital buffer management table.

The important bank designation unit 12 totalizes the chain-reactionbankruptcy number by using the generated first additional capital buffermanagement table. In other words, the important bank designation unit 12derives the chain-reaction bankruptcy number on condition that thefailed investment and financing destination fails in the state oftemporarily adding the total amount of additional capital buffersrecorded in the first additional capital buffer management table to thecapital buffer of the specified bank. The important bank designationunit 12 performs determination on whether individual banks go intobankruptcy in the derivation of the chain-reaction bankruptcy number ina manner described below.

The important bank designation unit 12 reads the amount, which isrecorded in the bank financial management table, of the capital bufferof a bank for which determination of whether to go into bankruptcy isperformed. The important bank designation unit 12 calculates the totalamount of interbank loans in banks determined to have already gonebankrupt among banks that are borrowers of interbank loans made by thebank. The important bank designation unit 12 calculates the sum of theamount of investment and financing made in failed investment andfinancing destinations by the bank and the calculated total amount ofthe interbank loans as the amount of the loss of the bank due to thefailures of the investment and financing destinations and the failuresof the borrowers of the interbank loans. The important bank designationunit 12 compares the amount of the capital buffer of the bank for whichdetermination of whether to go into bankruptcy is performed with thecalculated amount of the loss of the bank. When the capital bufferamount is larger than the calculated amount of the loss, the importantbank designation unit 12 determines that the bank does not go bankrupt.When the capital buffer amount is smaller than the calculated amount ofthe loss, the important bank designation unit 12 determines that thebank goes bankrupt.

The additional capital buffers are added to the capital buffer of thespecified bank. Therefore, the additional capital buffers absorb theloss due to the investment and financing made in the failed investmentand financing destinations by the specified bank, and the loss due tothe interbank loans in the banks that are the borrowers of the interbankloans and are determined to have already gone bankrupt. In other words,the investment and financing made in the failed investment and financingdestinations by the specified bank, and the amounts of the interbankloans made to the banks that are the borrowers determined to havealready gone bankrupt are not included in the amount of the loss, whichis compared with the capital buffer, of the specified bank. Theimportant bank designation unit 12 continues the determination ofwhether to go into bankruptcy for a bank that newly suffers a loss untilthe propagation of losses ends. The important bank designation unit 12totalizes the number of banks that have gone bankrupt before thepropagation of the losses ends, and considers the totalized number asthe chain-reaction bankruptcy number. The chain-reaction bankruptcynumber derived in step S104 is the above-described first chain-reactionbankruptcy number. The important bank designation unit 12 records thederived chain-reaction bankruptcy number in the first chain-reactionbankruptcy number management table.

The important bank designation unit 12 calculates a first index valuerepresenting the scale of the bankruptcies of the banks on the basis ofthe chain-reaction bankruptcy number calculated in step S104 (stepS105). In the description of the present example embodiment, the firstindex value is the first chain-reaction bankruptcy number. Accordingly,the important bank designation unit 12 may consider the derived firstchain-reaction bankruptcy number as the first index value.

When any bank that is not specified yet exists (NO in step S106), theimportant bank designation unit 12 performs the operations after stepS103. When all the banks included in the financial network (i.e., ofwhich the bank IDs are included in the bank financial management table)are specified (YES in step S106), the important bank designation unit 12designates an important bank on the basis of first index values (stepS107). The important bank designation unit 12 designates, as theimportant bank, a bank specified when deriving, for example, the lowestfirst index value of the first index values derived in step S105.

As described above, in the present example embodiment, the first indexvalue is the chain-reaction bankruptcy number (the above-described firstchain-reaction bankruptcy number) recorded in the first chain-reactionbankruptcy number management table. The important bank designation unit12 refers to the first chain-reaction bankruptcy number managementtable. The important bank designation unit 12 designates, as theimportant bank, for example, a bank specified when deriving the smallestchain-reaction bankruptcy number in the chain-reaction bankruptcynumbers recorded in the first chain-reaction bankruptcy numbermanagement table.

The important bank designation unit 12 sends the bank ID of thedesignated important bank (i.e., the bank ID of the bank designated asthe important bank) to the important loan designation unit 13.

After the operation of step S107, the operation of step S108 illustratedin FIG. 10 is performed.

The important loan designation unit 13 specifies an interbank loan thatis not yet specified yet among interbank loans made by the importantbank (step S108). The important loan designation unit 13 specifies, inturn, for example, interbank loans made by the important bank, includedin the interbank loan management table stored in the bank data storageunit 15.

The important loan designation unit 13 calculates the chain-reactionbankruptcy number on condition that the bankruptcy of the important bankdue to the failure of a failed financing destination and the bankruptcyof a borrower of the specified interbank loan is prevented (step S109).

The important loan designation unit 13 generates a second additionalcapital buffer management table relating to the specified interbankloan.

The important loan designation unit 13 extracts the amount of investmentand financing in the failed investment destinations, held by theimportant bank, from the investment and financing management table. Inother words, the important loan designation unit 13 extracts the amountof the investment and financing made in the failed investmentdestinations by the important bank. The important loan designation unit13 further reads the bank ID of the bank that is the borrower of thespecified interbank loan and the amount of the specified interbank loanfrom the interbank loan management table. The important loan designationunit 13 records, in the first additional capital buffer managementtable, a combination of the investment and financing destination ID ofthe failed investment and financing destination and the amount of theinvestment and financing in the failed investment destination, and acombination of the bank ID of the bank as the borrower of the specifiedinterbank loan and the amount of the interbank loan.

The important loan designation unit 13 totalizes the chain-reactionbankruptcy number by using the generated second additional capitalbuffer management table. In other words, the important loan designationunit 13 derives the chain-reaction bankruptcy number on condition thatthe failed investment and financing destination fails in the state oftemporarily adding the total amount of the additional capital buffersrecorded in the second additional capital buffer management table to thecapital buffer of the important bank. The important loan designationunit 13 performs determination on whether individual banks go intobankruptcy in the derivation of the chain-reaction bankruptcy number ina manner described below.

The important loan designation unit 13 reads the amount, which isrecorded in the bank financial management table, of the capital bufferof a bank for which determination of whether to go into bankruptcy isperformed. The important loan designation unit 13 calculates the totalamount of interbank loans in banks determined to have already gonebankrupt among banks that are borrowers of interbank loans by the bank.The important loan designation unit 13 calculates the sum of the amountof the investment and financing made in failed investment and financingdestinations by the bank and the calculated total amount of theinterbank loans as the amount of the loss of the bank due to thefailures of the investment and financing destinations and the failuresof the borrowers of the interbank loans. The important loan designationunit 13 compares the amount of the capital buffer of the bank for whichdetermination of whether to go into bankruptcy is performed with thecalculated amount of the loss of the bank. When the capital bufferamount is more than the calculated amount of the loss, the importantloan designation unit 13 determines that the bank does not go bankrupt.When the capital buffer amount is less than the calculated amount of theloss, the important loan designation unit 13 determines that the bankgoes bankrupt.

The additional capital buffers are added to the capital buffer of theimportant bank. Therefore, the additional capital buffers absorb theloss due to the investment and financing made in the failed investmentand financing destination by the important bank and the loss due to thespecified interbank loan on condition that the bank which is theborrower of the specified interbank loan goes bankrupt. In other words,the investment and financing made in the failed investment and financingdestination by the important bank, and the amount of the specifiedinterbank loan on condition that the bank which is the borrower of thespecified interbank loan is determined to have already gone bankrupt arenot included in the amount of the loss, which is compared with thecapital buffer, of the specified bank. The important loan designationunit 13 continues the determination of whether to go into bankruptcy fora bank that newly suffers a loss until the propagation of losses ends.The important loan designation unit 13 totalizes the number of banksthat have gone bankrupt before the propagation of the losses ends, andconsiders the totalized number as the chain-reaction bankruptcy number.The chain-reaction bankruptcy number derived in step S109 is theabove-described second chain-reaction bankruptcy number. The importantloan designation unit 13 records the derived chain-reaction bankruptcynumber in the second chain-reaction bankruptcy number management table.

The important loan designation unit 13 calculates a second index valuerepresenting the scale of the bankruptcies of the banks on the basis ofthe number of the chain-reaction bankruptcies calculated in step S109(step S110). In the description of the present example embodiment, thesecond index value is the second chain-reaction bankruptcy number.Accordingly, the important loan designation unit 13 may consider thederived second chain-reaction bankruptcy number as the second indexvalue.

When any interbank loan that is not yet specified yet as an interbankloan of the important bank exists (NO in step S111), the important loandesignation unit 13 repeats the operations from step S108. When all theinterbank loans of the important bank are specified (YES in step S111),the important loan designation unit 13 designates an important interbanktransaction on the basis of the second index values (step S112). Theimportant loan designation unit 13 designates, as the importantinterbank loan, an interbank loan specified when deriving, for example,the lowest second index value in the second index values derived in stepS110.

As described above, in the present example embodiment, the second indexvalue is the chain-reaction bankruptcy number (the above-described thesecond chain-reaction bankruptcy number) recorded in the secondchain-reaction bankruptcy number management table. The important loandesignation unit 13 refers to the second chain-reaction bankruptcynumber management table. The important loan designation unit 13designates, as the important interbank loan, for example, an interbankloan specified when deriving the smallest chain-reaction bankruptcynumber in the chain-reaction bankruptcy numbers recorded in the secondchain-reaction bankruptcy number management table.

The important loan designation unit 13 sends the bank ID of theimportant bank and information designating the important interbank loanto the display unit 14. As described above, the information designatingthe important interbank loan is, for example, a combination of the bankID of the bank that is the lender of the important interbank loan (i.e.,important bank) and the bank ID of the bank that is the borrower of theimportant interbank loan. Accordingly, in such a case, the importantloan designation unit 13 may send the bank ID of the important bank andthe bank ID of the bank that is the borrower of the important interbankloan to the display unit 14.

Then, the display unit 14 displays the important bank and the importantinterbank transaction (step S113). A display form in which the displayunit 14 displays the important bank and the important interbanktransaction may be any form in which the important bank and theimportant interbank transaction can be designated. The display form inwhich the display unit 14 displays the important bank and the importantinterbank transaction may be set, for example, by a administrator of thesystemic risk management system 100. The display unit 14 may read theamount of the important interbank transaction from, for example, thebank data storage unit 15, and may further display the read amount ofthe interbank transaction.

Operation Example Based on First Example Embodiment

An operation example based on the first example embodiment will bedescribed next in detail with reference to drawings.

FIG. 5 is a first additional capital buffer management table in a casein which the bank ID of a specified bank is B1 and a failed investmentand financing destination is an investment and financing destination C.In the following description, a bank may be represented using the bankID of the bank. For example, a bank of which the bank ID is B1 isreferred to as “bank B1.”

In the first additional capital buffer management table illustrated inFIG. 5, the amount of an additional capital buffer required forabsorbing a loss suffered from investment and financing in theinvestment and financing destination C in a case in which the investmentand financing destination C fails is 35. In a case in which a bank ofwhich the identifier is B2 goes bankrupt, the amount of an additionalcapital buffer required for absorbing a loss suffered from an interbankloan made to a borrower by the bank is 12. In a case in which a bank ofwhich the identifier is B3 goes bankrupt, the amount of an additionalcapital buffer required for absorbing a loss suffered from an interbankloan made to a borrower by the bank is 8. In addition, the capitalbuffer amount of the specified bank (i.e., the bank of which the bank IDis B1), recorded in the bank financial management table illustrated inFIG. 2, is 25.

The important bank designation unit 12 temporarily adds the total amountof the additional capital buffers recorded in the first additionalcapital buffer management table to the amount of the capital buffer of aspecified bank recorded in the bank financial management table. Theimportant bank designation unit 12 considers the sum of the totalamounts of the additional capital buffers recorded in the firstadditional capital buffer management table and the amount of the capitalbuffer of the specified bank recorded in the bank financial managementtable as the amount of the effective capital buffer of the specifiedbank. In the above-described example, the amount of the effectivecapital buffer of the bank B1 which is the specified bank is 80 that isthe total of the amount of the additional capital buffers illustrated inFIGS. 5 and 25 that is the amount of the capital buffer of the bank ofwhich bank ID recorded in the bank financial management table is B1. Theimportant bank designation unit 12 totalizes the chain-reactionbankruptcy number, by using, for example, such a model as described inBackground Art, under the condition that the capital buffer held by thebank B1 is 80.

In the example of the first chain-reaction bankruptcy number managementtable illustrated in FIG. 6, the chain-reaction bankruptcy number oncondition that the specified bank is the bank B1 is 1. Thechain-reaction bankruptcy number on condition that the specified bank isthe bank B2 is 2. The chain-reaction bankruptcy number on condition thatthe specified bank is the bank B3 is 3. Accordingly, in this example,the banks specified when the smallest chain-reaction bankruptcy numberis derived are the bank B1 and the bank B3. In other words, theimportant banks are the bank B1 and the bank B3. When a plurality ofbanks are designated as important banks, the important loan designationunit 13 may specify all the interbank loans of each of the importantbanks in turn. When a plurality of banks are designated as the importantbanks, the important loan designation unit 13 may further select oneimportant bank from the important banks according to, for example, apredetermined method. A case in which the bank B1 is designated as animportant bank will be described below.

FIG. 7 is the example of the second additional capital buffer managementtable in a case in which the failed investment and financing destinationis the investment and financing destination C, the important bank is thebank B1, and the borrower of the specified interbank loan is a bank B2.In the second additional capital buffer management table illustrated inFIG. 7, on condition that the investment and financing destination Cfails, the amount of an additional capital buffer required for absorbinga loss suffered due to investment and financing in the investment andfinancing destination C is 35. On condition that the bank B2 that is theborrower of the specified interbank loan goes bankrupt, the amount of anadditional capital buffer required for absorbing a loss due to thespecified interbank loan is 12.

The important loan designation unit 13 temporarily adds the total amountof the additional capital buffers recorded in the second additionalcapital buffer management table to the amount of the capital buffer ofthe important bank recorded in the bank financial management table. Theimportant loan designation unit 13 considers the sum of the total amountof the additional capital buffers recorded in the second additionalcapital buffer management table and the amount of the capital buffer ofthe important bank recorded in the bank financial management table asthe amount of the effective capital buffer of the important bank. In theabove-described example, the amount of the effective capital buffer ofthe bank B1 which is the important bank is 72 that is the total of theamount of the additional capital buffers illustrated in FIGS. 7 and 25that is the amount of the capital buffer of the bank B1 recorded in thebank financial management table. The important loan designation unit 13totalizes the chain-reaction bankruptcy number, by using, for example,such a model as described in Background Art, under the condition thatthe capital buffer held by the bank B1 is 72.

In the example of the second chain-reaction bankruptcy number managementtable illustrated in FIG. 8, the chain-reaction bankruptcy number oncondition that the bank which is the borrower of the specified interbankloan is the bank B2 is 2. The chain-reaction bankruptcy number oncondition that the bank that is the borrower of the specified interbankloan is the bank B3 is 1. Accordingly, in this example, the bank that isthe borrower of the interbank loan specified when the smallestchain-reaction bankruptcy number is derived is B3. In other words, theimportant loan is an interbank loan made to the bank B3 by the importantbank B1.

The present example embodiment described above has the first effect ofbeing capable of designating an important part with regard to a systemicrisk in a financial network.

The present example embodiment further has the second effect of beingcapable of easily managing the systemic risk.

The reason of the first effect and the second effect is because theimportant bank designation unit 12 designates an important bank and theimportant loan designation unit 13 designates an important interbankloan from interbank loans made by the important bank.

The important bank designation unit 12 designates, as an important bank,a bank of which the prevention of the bankruptcy causes the smallestscale of bankruptcies in a financial network. In other words, theimportant bank designation unit 12 designates, as the important bank,the most important bank in banks from the viewpoint of contribution to areduction in systemic risk. The important bank designated by theimportant bank designation unit 12 can be considered as a bank requiringthe most significant improvement from the viewpoint of contribution to areduction in systemic risk.

The important loan designation unit 13 designates, as an importantinterbank loan, an interbank loan of which the prevention of a loss dueto the bankruptcy of a bank that is a borrower causes the smallest scaleof bankruptcies in a financial network. In other words, the importantloan designation unit 13 designates, as the important interbank loan,the most important interbank loan in banks from the viewpoint ofcontribution to a reduction in systemic risk. The important interbankloan designated by the important bank designation unit 12 can beconsidered as an interbank loan requiring the most significantimprovement from the viewpoint of contribution to a reduction insystemic risk.

As described above, an important bank and an important interbank loanmade by the important bank, which are important parts in a financialnetwork, can be designated in the present example embodiment.

Accordingly, a systemic risk can be easily managed.

Second Example Embodiment

A second example embodiment of the present invention will be describednext in detail with reference to drawings.

FIG. 1 is a view illustrating the configuration of a systemic riskmanagement system 100 of the present example embodiment. Theconfiguration of the systemic risk management system 100 of the presentexample embodiment is the same as the configuration of the systemic riskmanagement system 100 of the first example embodiment. The components ofthe present example embodiment are the same as the components, to whichthe same names are assigned, of the first example embodiment, exceptdifferences described below. The operations of the present exampleembodiment are the same as the operations, to which the same referencesigns are assigned, of the first example embodiment, except differencesdescribed below.

In step S105 illustrated in FIG. 9, an important bank designation unit12 of the present example embodiment derives, as a first index value, anindex value other than the first chain-reaction bankruptcy number. Thevalue derived as the first index value by the important bank designationunit 12 is, for example, a to-capital chain-reaction bankruptcyimprovement rate, a large-asset bank bankruptcy ratio, a leading bankbankruptcy ratio, a bankruptcy growth rate, or the like. The to-capitalchain-reaction bankruptcy improvement rate, the large-asset bankbankruptcy ratio, the leading bank bankruptcy ratio, and the bankruptcygrowth rate will be described in detail later. The important bankdesignation unit 12 further records the first index value in a firstchain-reaction bankruptcy number management table.

FIG. 11 is a view schematically illustrating an example of the firstchain-reaction bankruptcy number management table in the present exampleembodiment. In FIG. 11, a value in an item of which the item name is“FIRST INDEX VALUE” represents the first index value.

An important loan designation unit 13 of the present example embodimentderives, as a second index value, an index value other than the secondchain-reaction bankruptcy number in step S109 illustrated in FIG. 10.The value derived as the second index value by the important loandesignation unit 13 is, for example, a to-capital chain-reactionbankruptcy improvement rate, a large-asset bank bankruptcy ratio, aleading bank bankruptcy ratio, a bankruptcy growth rate, or the like.The important loan designation unit 13 further records the second indexvalue in a second chain-reaction bankruptcy number management table.

FIG. 12 is a view schematically illustrating an example of the secondchain-reaction bankruptcy number management table in the present exampleembodiment. In FIG. 12, a value in an item of which the item name is“SECOND INDEX VALUE” represents the second index value.

The systemic risk management system 100 of the present exampleembodiment is the same as the systemic risk management system 100 of thefirst example embodiment except the above-described differences.Description of the same points of the systemic risk management system100 of the present example embodiment as those of the systemic riskmanagement system 100 of the first example embodiment is omitted.

The to-capital chain-reaction bankruptcy improvement rate, thelarge-asset bank bankruptcy ratio, the leading bank bankruptcy ratio,and the bankruptcy growth rate will be described below.

The “to-capital chain-reaction bankruptcy improvement rate” is the ratioof a chain-reaction bankruptcy improvement number in a specified stateto the increment of the total amount of additional capital buffers inthe specified state. In other words, the to-capital chain-reactionbankruptcy improvement rate is a value obtained by dividing thechain-reaction bankruptcy improvement number in the specified state bythe increment of the total amount of the additional capital buffers inthe specified state.

The specified state may be, for example, a state in which the amount ofthe first additional capital buffer described above is added to theamount of the capital buffer of a specified bank. The specified statemay be, for example, a state in which the amount of the secondadditional capital buffer described above is added to the amount of thecapital buffer of an important bank. The increment of the total amountof the additional capital buffers is, for example, the increment of thetotal amount of additional capital buffers in a specified state from thetotal amount of additional capital buffers in a predetermined referencestate. In other words, the increment is a value obtained by subtractingthe total amount of the additional capital buffers in the predeterminedreference state from the total amount of the additional capital buffersin the specified state. The above-described reference state is, forexample, a state in which an additional capital buffer is not added tothe capital buffer of any bank. The reference state may be another stateset in advance. The chain-reaction bankruptcy improvement number is, forexample, the increment of the chain-reaction bankruptcy number in theabove-described reference state from the chain-reaction bankruptcynumber in a specified state. In the following description, the referencestate is a state in which an additional capital buffer is not added tothe capital buffer of any bank.

In the example of the first additional capital buffer management tableillustrated in FIG. 5, the amount of an additional capital buffer in acase in which the bank B1 is a specified bank is 55. In the referencestate, an additional capital buffer is not added to the capital bufferof any bank, and therefore, the amount of the additional capital bufferis zero. In the example of the first chain-reaction bankruptcy numbermanagement table illustrated in FIG. 6, the chain-reaction bankruptcynumber on condition that the bank B1 is the specified bank is 1. Thechain-reaction bankruptcy number on condition that the specified bank is“none” (i.e., in the reference state) is 2. The chain-reactionbankruptcy improvement number is 1 that is a value obtained bysubtracting 1 which is the chain-reaction bankruptcy number on conditionthat the bank B1 is the specified bank from 2 which is thechain-reaction bankruptcy number on condition that the specified bank is“none.” In the above-described example, the to-capital chain-reactionbankruptcy improvement rate is a value obtained by dividing 1 which isthe chain-reaction bankruptcy improvement number by 55 which is theamount of the additional capital buffer on condition that the bank B1 isthe specified bank.

The “large-asset bank bankruptcy ratio” represents the ratio oflarge-asset banks in banks that have gone bankrupt. In other words, thelarge-asset bank bankruptcy ratio is a value obtained by dividing thenumber of large-asset banks determined to have gone bankrupt before thepropagation of losses ends by the number of chain-reaction bankruptcies.A large-asset bank refers to a bank of which the total value of theinvestment and financing amount and the interbank loan amount is largerthan a predetermined asset threshold value. For example, in a case inwhich the asset threshold value is 150, the bank B3 corresponds to sucha large-asset bank in the example of the bank financial management tableillustrated in FIG. 2.

The “leading bank bankruptcy ratio” is the ratio of leading banks inbanks that have gone bankrupt. In other words, the leading bankbankruptcy ratio is a value obtained by dividing the number of leadingbanks determined to have gone bankrupt before the propagation of lossesends by the number of chain-reaction bankruptcies. A leading bank refersto a bank of which the rank of the total value of the investment andfinancing amount and the interbank loan amount in banks included in afinancial network is equal to or higher than a rank indicated by apredetermined rank threshold value. In a case in which the rankthreshold value is 2, the bank B2 and the bank B3 correspond to suchleading banks in the example of the bank financial management tableillustrated in FIG. 2.

The “bankruptcy growth rate” is the ratio of the number of initialbankruptcies to the number of final chain-reaction bankruptcies. Thenumber of the initial bankruptcies is the number of bankruptcies justafter one of investment and financing destinations has failed. Thenumber of the initial bankruptcies is, for example, the number of banksdetermined to have gone bankrupt due to only the loss of investment andfinancing in a failed investment and financing destination. The numberof the final chain-reaction bankruptcies is the number of finalchain-reaction bankruptcies after the propagation of losses ends due tothe failure of the investment and financing destination. The numbers ofchain-reaction bankruptcies illustrated in FIG. 11 and FIG. 12 are thenumbers of final chain-reaction bankruptcies. For example, in a case inwhich the number of initial bankruptcies is 1 and the number of finalchain-reaction bankruptcies is 2, the bankruptcy growth rate is 2 thatis a value obtained by dividing 2 which is the number of the finalchain-reaction bankruptcies by 1 which is the number of the initialbankruptcies.

The present example embodiment described above has the same effects asthe effects of the first example embodiment. The reason thereof is thesame as the reason why the effects of the first example embodiment areexhibited.

Third Example Embodiment

A third example embodiment of the present invention will be describednext in detail with reference to drawings.

FIG. 1 is a view illustrating the configuration of a systemic riskmanagement system 100 of the present example embodiment. Theconfiguration of the systemic risk management system 100 of the presentexample embodiment is the same as the configuration of the systemic riskmanagement system 100 of the second example embodiment. The componentsof the present example embodiment are the same as the components, towhich the same names are assigned, of the second example embodiment,except differences described below. The operations of the presentexample embodiment are the same as the operations, to which thereference signs are assigned, of the second example embodiment, exceptdifferences described below.

A data input unit 10 of the present example embodiment receives the kindof a first index value and the kind of a second index value from anindication device 3. For example, a user of the systemic risk managementsystem 100 may specify the kind of the first index value and the kind ofthe second index value.

The kind of the first index value represents the chain-reactionbankruptcy number, the to-capital chain-reaction bankruptcy improvementrate, the large-asset bank bankruptcy ratio, the leading bank bankruptcyratio, or the bankruptcy growth rate. The data input unit 10 receives,as the kind of the first index value, for example, a value indicatingthe chain-reaction bankruptcy number, a value indicating the to-capitalchain-reaction bankruptcy improvement rate, a value indicating thelarge-asset bank bankruptcy ratio, a value indicating the leading bankbankruptcy ratio, or a value indicating the bankruptcy growth rate,which are set in advance and are different from each other.

The kind of the second index value represents the chain-reactionbankruptcy number, the to-capital chain-reaction bankruptcy improvementrate, the large-asset bank bankruptcy ratio, the leading bank bankruptcyratio, or the bankruptcy growth rate. The data input unit 10 receives,as the kind of the second index value, for example, a value indicatingthe chain-reaction bankruptcy number, a value indicating the to-capitalchain-reaction bankruptcy improvement rate, a value indicating thelarge-asset bank bankruptcy ratio, a value indicating the leading bankbankruptcy ratio, or a value indicating the bankruptcy growth rate,which are set in advance and are different from each other. The kind ofthe second index value may be different from the kind of the first indexvalue.

The data input unit 10 sends the kind of the first index value to animportant bank designation unit 12. The data input unit 10 sends thekind of the first index value to an important loan designation unit 13via, for example, the important bank designation unit 12. The data inputunit 10 may directly send the kind of the first index value to theimportant loan designation unit 13.

In step S105 illustrated in FIG. 9, the important bank designation unit12 of the present example embodiment derives, as a first index value, afirst index value of the kind designated by the received kind of thefirst index value. The value derived as the first index value by theimportant bank designation unit 12 is, for example, the to-capitalchain-reaction bankruptcy improvement rate, the large-asset bankbankruptcy ratio, the leading bank bankruptcy ratio, the bankruptcygrowth rate, or the like. When the received kind of the first indexvalue is the chain-reaction bankruptcy number, the important bankdesignation unit 12 may set the derived first chain-reaction bankruptcynumber as the first index value.

In step S110 illustrated in FIG. 10, the important loan designation unit13 of the present example embodiment derives, as a second index value, asecond index value of the kind designated by the received kind of thesecond index value. The value derived as the second index value by theimportant bank designation unit 12 is, for example, the to-capitalchain-reaction bankruptcy improvement rate, the large-asset bankbankruptcy ratio, the leading bank bankruptcy ratio, the bankruptcygrowth rate, or the like. When the received kind of the second indexvalue is the chain-reaction bankruptcy number, the important loandesignation unit 13 may set the derived second chain-reaction bankruptcynumber as the second index value.

The present example embodiment described above has the same effects asthe effects of the first example embodiment. The reason thereof is thesame as the reason why the effects of the first example embodiment areexhibited.

The present example embodiment further has the third effect of beingcapable of designating an important part with regard to a systemic riskfrom various viewpoints in a financial network.

The reason thereof is because the important bank designation unit 12derives the first index value of the kind designated by the receivedkind of the first index value. In addition, the reason is because theimportant loan designation unit 13 derives the second index value of thekind designated by the received kind of the second index value.

Fourth Example Embodiment

A fourth example embodiment of the present invention will now bedescribed in detail with reference to drawings.

FIG. 13 is a block diagram illustrating an example of the configuring ofa systemic risk management system 100A of the present exampleembodiment.

FIG. 15 is a block diagram illustrating another example of theconfiguring of the systemic risk management system 100A of the presentexample embodiment. For example, as illustrated in FIG. 15, the systemicrisk management system 100A of the present example embodiment may beimplemented as a systemic risk management device 1A which is one device.The systemic risk management system 100A may be implemented as aplurality of devices. When the systemic risk management system 100A isimplemented as a plurality of devices, the plurality of devices may becommunicably connected through a communication network and the like. Thecommunication network is implemented with at least either wiredcommunication or wireless communication. The systemic risk managementsystem 100A of the present example embodiment may further include a bankdata provision device (not illustrated) and an indication device (notillustrated) that are connected communicably to the systemic riskmanagement device 1A through a communication network. The bank dataprovision device and indication device of the present example embodimentare the same as the bank data provision device 2 and indication device 3of the first example embodiment, respectively.

The systemic risk management system 100A includes an important bankdesignation unit 12 and an important loan designation unit 13. Theimportant bank designation unit 12 designates an important bank from aplurality of banks in which an interbank loan is made on the basis ofthe smallness of the first scale of bankruptcies. The first scale of thebankruptcies is the scale of the bankruptcies of the plurality of banksdue to the influence of the failure of a predetermined investment andfinancing destination on condition of preventing the bankruptcy of abank included in the plurality of banks due to the influence of thefailure of the predetermined investment and financing destination inwhich investment and financing are made by at least any one of theplurality of banks. The important loan designation unit 13 designates animportant interbank loan from one or more interbank loans made by theimportant bank, on the basis of the smallness of the second scale ofbankruptcies. The second scale of the bankruptcies is the scale ofbankruptcies of the plurality of banks due to the influence of thefailure of the predetermined investment and financing destination oncondition of preventing the bankruptcy of the important bank due to thebankruptcy and failure of a bank that is a borrower of an interbank loanincluded in one or more interbank loans.

The operations of the systemic risk management system 100A of thepresent example embodiment will be described next in detail withreference to drawings.

FIG. 16 is a flowchart illustrating an example of the operations of thesystemic risk management system 100A of the present example embodiment.

Referring to FIG. 16, first, the important bank designation unit 12designates an important bank from a plurality of banks in which aninterbank loan is made on the basis of the smallness of the first scaleof bankruptcies (step S201). Then, the important loan designation unit13 designates an important interbank loan from one or more interbankloans made by the important bank, on the basis of the smallness of thesecond scale of bankruptcies (step S202).

The present example embodiment has the same effects as the effects ofthe first example embodiment. The reason thereof is the same as thereason why the effects of the first example embodiment are exhibited.

Other Example Embodiment

Each of the systemic risk management devices according to the exampleembodiments of the present invention can be implemented by circuitry.The circuitry is a computer including, for example, a processor and amemory into which a program executed by the processor is loaded. Thecircuitry may be a plurality of computers that are communicablyconnected. The circuitry is, for example, a dedicated circuit. Thecircuitry may be a plurality of circuits that are connected communicablyto each other. The circuitry may be a combination of one or morecomputers and one or more circuits that are communicably connected.

FIG. 14 is a view illustrating an example of a hardware configuration ofa computer 1000 with which the systemic risk management devices 1 and 1Acan be implemented. Referring to FIG. 14, the computer 1000 includes aprocessor 1001, a memory 1002, a storage device 1003, and an I/O(input/output) interface 1004. The computer 1000 can access a storagemedium 1005. The memory 1002 and the storage device 1003 are, forexample, storage devices such as a RAM (random access memory) and a harddisk. The storage medium 1005 is, for example, a storage device such asa RAM or a hard disk, a ROM (read only memory), or a removable storagemedium. The storage device 1003 may be the storage medium 1005. Theprocessor 1001 can read and write data and a program from and into thememory 1002 and the storage device 1003. The processor 1001 cancommunicate with, for example, the bank data provision device 2, theindication device 3, and a display device (not illustrated) via the I/Ointerface 1004. The processor 1001 can access the storage medium 1005.The storage medium 1005 stores a program that causes the computer 1000to operate as the systemic risk management device 1 or 1A.

The processor 1001 loads, into the memory 1002, the program that isstored in the storage medium 1005 and causes the computer 1000 tooperate as the systemic risk management device 1 or 1A. The processor1001 executes the program loaded into the memory 1002, thereby causingthe computer 1000 to operate as the systemic risk management device 1 or1A.

Each unit included in a first group described below can be implementedby, for example, a dedicated program that is read from the storagemedium 1005 storing the program into the memory 1002 and can achieve thefunction of each unit, and by the processor 1001 which executes theprogram. The first group includes the data input unit 10, the importantbank designation unit 12, the important loan designation unit 13, andthe display unit 14.

Each unit included in a second group described below can be implementedby the memory 1002 and the storage device 1003 such as a hard diskdevice which are included in the computer 1000. The second groupincludes the bank data storage unit 15, the first bankruptcy scalestorage unit 16, and the second bankruptcy scale storage unit 17.

Alternatively, a part or all of all the units included in the firstgroup and the second group can also be implemented by a dedicatedcircuit that achieves the functions of their respective units.

FIG. 17 is a block diagram illustrating an example of theconfigurations, implemented by a dedicated circuit, of the systemic riskmanagement devices 1 according to the first, second, and third exampleembodiments of the present invention. Referring to FIG. 17, the systemicrisk management device 1 includes a data input circuit 110, an importantbank designation circuit 112, an important loan designation circuit 113,a display circuit 114, a bank data storage device 115, a firstbankruptcy scale storage device 116, and a second bankruptcy scalestorage device 117.

FIG. 18 is a block diagram illustrating an example of the configuration,implemented by a dedicated circuit, of the systemic risk managementdevice 1A according to the fourth example embodiment of the presentinvention. Referring to FIG. 18, the systemic risk management device 1Aincludes an important bank designation circuit 112 and an important loandesignation circuit 113.

The data input unit 10 is achieved by the data input circuit 110. Thedata input circuit 110 operates as the data input unit 10. The importantbank designation unit 12 is achieved by the important bank designationcircuit 112. The important bank designation circuit 112 operates as theimportant bank designation unit 12. The important loan designation unit13 is achieved by the important loan designation circuit 113. Theimportant loan designation circuit 113 operates as the important loandesignation unit 13. The display unit 14 is achieved by the displaycircuit 114. The display circuit 114 operates as the display unit 14.The bank data storage unit 15 is achieved by the bank data storagedevice 115. The bank data storage device 115 operates as the bank datastorage unit 15. The first bankruptcy scale storage unit 16 is achievedby the first bankruptcy scale storage device 116. The first bankruptcyscale storage device 116 operates as the first bankruptcy scale storageunit 16. The second bankruptcy scale storage unit 17 is achieved by thesecond bankruptcy scale storage device 117. The second bankruptcy scalestorage device 117 operates as the second bankruptcy scale storage unit17.

A part or all of the example embodiments described above can also bedescribed as in the following Supplementary Notes but are not limitedthereto.

(Supplementary Note 1)

A systemic risk management system including:

important bank designation means for designating an important bank froma plurality of banks in which an interbank loan is made based onsmallness of a first scale of bankruptcies, the first scale being ascale of bankruptcies of the plurality of banks due to an influence of afailure of a predetermined investment and financing destination oncondition of preventing a bankruptcy of a bank included in the pluralityof banks due to the influence of the failure of the predeterminedinvestment and financing destination in which investment and financingare made by at least any one of the plurality of banks; and

important loan designation means for designating an important interbankloan from at least one interbank loan made by the important bank basedon smallness of a second scale of bankruptcies, the second scale being ascale of bankruptcies of the plurality of banks due to the influence ofthe failure of the predetermined investment and financing destination oncondition of preventing a bankruptcy of the important bank due to abankruptcy of a bank being a borrower of an interbank loan included inthe at least one interbank loan and the failure of the predeterminedinvestment and financing destination.

(Supplementary Note 2)

The systemic risk management system according to Supplementary Note 1,wherein

the important bank designation means derives the first scale ofbankruptcies based on bank financial data, investment and financingdata, and interbank loan data of the plurality of banks, the bankfinancial data including an amount of a capital buffer which is acapital that is capable of being used for absorbing a loss, theinvestment and financing data including an investment and financingamount for each investment and financing destination, the interbank loandata including an amount of an interbank loan made by each bank as aborrower, and

the important loan designation means derives the second scale ofbankruptcies based on the bank financial data, the investment andfinancing data, and the interbank loan data of the plurality of banks.

(Supplementary Note 3)

The systemic risk management system according to Supplementary Note 1 or2, wherein

the important bank designation means calculates a first index valuerepresenting a scale of bankruptcies of the plurality of banks due tothe influence of the failure on condition of preventing a bankruptcy ofa bank included in the plurality of banks due to the influence of thefailure, and selects the important bank from the plurality of banksbased on the smallness of a scale of bankruptcies, the scale beingrepresented by the first index value, thereby designating the importantbank.

(Supplementary Note 4)

The systemic risk management system according to any one ofSupplementary Notes 1 to 3, wherein

the important loan designation means calculates a second index valuerepresenting the second scale of bankruptcies of the plurality of banksdue to the influence of the failure on condition of preventing abankruptcy of the important bank due to a bankruptcy of a bank being aborrower of an interbank loan included in a plurality of interbank loansmade by the important bank and the failure, and selects the importantinterbank loan from the plurality of interbank loans based on smallnessof a scale of bankruptcies, the scale being represented by the secondindex value, thereby designating the important interbank loan.

(Supplementary Note 5)

The systemic risk management system according to Supplementary Note 4,wherein

the first index value is any one of:

a chain-reaction bankruptcy number which is a count of banks goingbankrupt due to the failure among the plurality of banks;

a large-asset bank bankruptcy ratio which is a rate of a large-capitalbank in the banks going bankrupt, the large-capital bank being a bank ofwhich a total value of an investment and financing amount and aninterbank loan amount is more than a predetermined value;

a leading bank bankruptcy ratio that is a rate of a leading bank in thebanks going bankrupt, the leading bank being a bank of which a rank ofmagnitude of the total value is not less than a predetermined rank;

a bankruptcy growth rate that is a rate of a count of banks goingbankrupt due to a loss of interbank loans made to an other bank goingbankrupt due to the failure to a count of banks going bankrupt due to aloss of investment and financing caused by the failure among theplurality of banks; and

a to-capital chain-reaction bankruptcy improvement rate that is achain-reaction bankruptcy improvement number per unit of an additionalcapital buffer which is a capital which is capable of being used forabsorbing a loss and is added, thereby being capable of absorbing a lossdue to the bankruptcies of the banks, the chain-reaction bankruptcyimprovement number being a decrement of a count of the chain-reactionbankruptcies on condition that the additional capital buffer is addedfrom a count of the chain-reaction bankruptcies on condition that theadditional capital buffer is not added, and

the second index is any one of the chain-reaction bankruptcies number,the large-asset bank bankruptcy ratio, the bankruptcy growth rate, andthe to-capital chain-reaction bankruptcy improvement rate.

(Supplementary Note 6)

The systemic risk management system according to any one ofSupplementary Notes 1 to 5, wherein

the important bank designation means sets an amount obtained by addingan amount that is not less than an amount of a loss due to influence ofa failure of an investment and financing destination to the amount ofthe capital buffer used for absorbing the loss of the banks as theamount of the capital buffer, thereby deriving the first scale ofbankruptcies of banks, and

the important loan designation means sets an amount obtained by addingan amount of a loss due to the bankruptcy of the bank that is theborrower of the interbank loan included in the at least one interbankloan and a failure of the investment and financing destination to theamount of the capital buffer used for absorbing the loss of theimportant bank as the amount of the capital buffer, thereby deriving thesecond scale of bankruptcies of banks.

(Supplementary Note 7)

A systemic risk management method including:

designating an important bank from a plurality of banks in which aninterbank loan is made based on smallness of a first scale ofbankruptcies, the first scale being a scale of bankruptcies of theplurality of banks due to an influence of a failure of a predeterminedinvestment and financing destination on condition of preventing abankruptcy of a bank included in the plurality of banks due to theinfluence of the failure of the predetermined investment and financingdestination in which investment and financing are made by at least anyone of the plurality of banks; and

designating an important interbank loan from at least one interbank loanmade by the important bank based on smallness of a second scale ofbankruptcies, the second scale being a scale of bankruptcies of theplurality of banks due to the influence of the failure of thepredetermined investment and financing destination on condition ofpreventing a bankruptcy of the important bank due to a bankruptcy of abank being a borrower of an interbank loan included in the at least oneinterbank loan and the failure of the predetermined investment andfinancing destination.

(Supplementary Note 8)

The systemic risk management method according to Supplementary Note 7,including:

deriving the first scale of bankruptcies is derived based on bankfinancial data, investment and financing data, and interbank loan dataof the plurality of banks, the bank financial data including an amountof a capital buffer which is a capital that is capable of being used forabsorbing a loss, the investment and financing data including aninvestment and financing amount for each investment and financingdestination, the interbank loan data including an amount of an interbankloan made by each bank as a borrower, wherein

the second scale of bankruptcies is derived based on the bank financialdata, the investment and financing data, and the interbank loan data ofthe plurality of banks.

(Supplementary Note 9)

The systemic risk management method according to Supplementary Note 7 or8, including:

calculating a first index value representing a scale of bankruptcies ofthe plurality of banks due to the influence of the failure on conditionof preventing a bankruptcy of a bank included in the plurality of banksdue to the influence of the failure, and selecting the important bankfrom the plurality of banks based on the smallness of a scale ofbankruptcies, the scale being represented by the first index value,thereby designating the important bank.

(Supplementary Note 10)

The systemic risk management method according to any one ofSupplementary Notes 7 to 9, including:

calculating a second index value representing the second scale ofbankruptcies of the plurality of banks due to the influence of thefailure on condition of preventing a bankruptcy of the important bankdue to a bankruptcy of a bank being a borrower of an interbank loanincluded in a plurality of interbank loans made by the important bankand the failure, and selecting the important interbank loan from theplurality of interbank loans based on smallness of a scale ofbankruptcies, the scale being represented by the second index value,thereby designating the important interbank loan.

(Supplementary Note 11)

The systemic risk management method according to Supplementary Note 10,wherein

the first index value is any one of:

a chain-reaction bankruptcy number which is a count of banks goingbankrupt due to the failure among the plurality of banks;

a large-asset bank bankruptcy ratio which is a rate of a large-capitalbank in the banks going bankrupt, the large-capital bank being a bank ofwhich a total value of an investment and financing amount and aninterbank loan amount is more than a predetermined value;

a leading bank bankruptcy ratio that is a rate of a leading bank in thebanks going bankrupt, the leading bank being a bank of which a rank ofmagnitude of the total value is not less than a predetermined rank;

a bankruptcy growth rate that is a rate of a count of banks goingbankrupt due to a loss of interbank loans made to an other bank goingbankrupt due to the failure to a count of banks going bankrupt due to aloss of investment and financing caused by the failure among theplurality of banks; and

a to-capital chain-reaction bankruptcy improvement rate that is achain-reaction bankruptcy improvement number per unit of an additionalcapital buffer which is a capital which is capable of being used forabsorbing a loss and is added, thereby being capable of absorbing a lossdue to the bankruptcies of the banks, the chain-reaction bankruptcyimprovement number being a decrement of a count of the chain-reactionbankruptcies on condition that the additional capital buffer is addedfrom a count of the chain-reaction bankruptcies on condition that theadditional capital buffer is not added, and

the second index is any one of the chain-reaction bankruptcies number,the large-asset bank bankruptcy ratio, the bankruptcy growth rate, andthe to-capital chain-reaction bankruptcy improvement rate.

(Supplementary Note 12)

The systemic risk management method according to any one ofSupplementary Notes 7 to 11, including:

setting an amount obtained by adding an amount that is not less than anamount of a loss due to influence of a failure of an investment andfinancing destination to the amount of the capital buffer used forabsorbing the loss of the banks as the amount of the capital buffer,thereby deriving the first scale of bankruptcies of banks; and

setting an amount obtained by adding an amount of a loss due to thebankruptcy of the bank that is the borrower of the interbank loanincluded in the at least one interbank loan and a failure of theinvestment and financing destination to the amount of the capital bufferused for absorbing the loss of the important bank as the amount of thecapital buffer, thereby deriving the second scale of bankruptcies ofbanks.

(Supplementary Note 13)

A systemic risk management program that causes a computer to execute:

important bank designation processing that designates an important bankfrom a plurality of banks in which an interbank loan is made based onsmallness of a first scale of bankruptcies, the first scale being ascale of bankruptcies of the plurality of banks due to an influence of afailure of a predetermined investment and financing destination oncondition of preventing a bankruptcy of a bank included in the pluralityof banks due to the influence of the failure of the predeterminedinvestment and financing destination in which investment and financingare made by at least any one of the plurality of banks; and

important loan designation processing that designates an importantinterbank loan from at least one interbank loan made by the importantbank based on smallness of a second scale of bankruptcies, the secondscale being a scale of bankruptcies of the plurality of banks due to theinfluence of the failure of the predetermined investment and financingdestination on condition of preventing a bankruptcy of the importantbank due to a bankruptcy of a bank being a borrower of an interbank loanincluded in the at least one interbank loan and the failure of thepredetermined investment and financing destination.

(Supplementary Note 14)

The systemic risk management program according to Supplementary Note 13,wherein

the important bank designation processing derives the first scale ofbankruptcies based on bank financial data, investment and financingdata, and interbank loan data of the plurality of banks, the bankfinancial data including an amount of a capital buffer which is acapital that is capable of being used for absorbing a loss, theinvestment and financing data including an investment and financingamount for each investment and financing destination, the interbank loandata including an amount of an interbank loan made by each bank as aborrower, and

the important loan designation processing derives the second scale ofbankruptcies based on the bank financial data, the investment andfinancing data, and the interbank loan data of the plurality of banks.

(Supplementary Note 15)

The systemic risk management program according to Supplementary Note 13or 14, wherein

the important bank designation processing calculates a first index valuerepresenting a scale of bankruptcies of the plurality of banks due tothe influence of the failure on condition of preventing a bankruptcy ofa bank included in the plurality of banks due to the influence of thefailure, and selects the important bank from the plurality of banksbased on the smallness of a scale of bankruptcies, the scale beingrepresented by the first index value, thereby designating the importantbank.

(Supplementary Note 16)

The systemic risk management program according to any one ofSupplementary Notes 13 to 15, wherein

the important loan designation processing calculates a second indexvalue representing the second scale of bankruptcies of the plurality ofbanks due to the influence of the failure on condition of preventing abankruptcy of the important bank due to a bankruptcy of a bank being aborrower of an interbank loan included in a plurality of interbank loansmade by the important bank and the failure, and selects the importantinterbank loan from the plurality of interbank loans based on smallnessof a scale of bankruptcies, the scale being represented by the secondindex value, thereby designating the important interbank loan.

(Supplementary Note 17)

The systemic risk management program according to Supplementary Note 16,wherein

the first index value is any one of:

a chain-reaction bankruptcy number which is a count of banks goingbankrupt due to the failure among the plurality of banks;

a large-asset bank bankruptcy ratio which is a rate of a large-capitalbank in the banks going bankrupt, the large-capital bank being a bank ofwhich a total value of an investment and financing amount and aninterbank loan amount is more than a predetermined value;

a leading bank bankruptcy ratio that is a rate of a leading bank in thebanks going bankrupt, the leading bank being a bank of which a rank ofmagnitude of the total value is not less than a predetermined rank;

a bankruptcy growth rate that is a rate of a count of banks goingbankrupt due to a loss of interbank loans made to an other bank goingbankrupt due to the failure to a count of banks going bankrupt due to aloss of investment and financing caused by the failure among theplurality of banks; and

a to-capital chain-reaction bankruptcy improvement rate that is achain-reaction bankruptcy improvement number per unit of an additionalcapital buffer which is a capital which is capable of being used forabsorbing a loss and is added, thereby being capable of absorbing a lossdue to the bankruptcies of the banks, the chain-reaction bankruptcyimprovement number being a decrement of a count of the chain-reactionbankruptcies on condition that the additional capital buffer is addedfrom a count of the chain-reaction bankruptcies on condition that theadditional capital buffer is not added, and

the second index is any one of the chain-reaction bankruptcies number,the large-asset bank bankruptcy ratio, the bankruptcy growth rate, andthe to-capital chain-reaction bankruptcy improvement rate.

(Supplementary Note 18)

The systemic risk management program according to any one ofSupplementary Notes 13 to 17, wherein

the important bank designation processing sets an amount obtained byadding an amount that is not less than an amount of a loss due toinfluence of a failure of an investment and financing destination to theamount of the capital buffer used for absorbing the loss of the banks asthe amount of the capital buffer, thereby deriving the first scale ofbankruptcies of banks, and

the important loan designation processing sets an amount obtained byadding an amount of a loss due to the bankruptcy of the bank that is theborrower of the interbank loan included in the at least one interbankloan and a failure of the investment and financing destination to theamount of the capital buffer used for absorbing the loss of theimportant bank as the amount of the capital buffer, thereby deriving thesecond scale of bankruptcies of banks.

(Supplementary Note 19)

A storage medium storing a systemic risk management program accordingany one of Supplementary Notes 13 to 18.

The present invention is described above with reference to the exampleembodiments. However, the present invention is not limited to theexample embodiments described above. Various modifications that can beunderstood by those skilled in the art within the scope of the presentinvention can be made in the configuration and details of the presentinvention.

This application claims priority based on Japanese Patent ApplicationNo. 2015-033996, which was filed on Feb. 24, 2015, and the entiredisclosure of which is incorporated herein.

INDUSTRIAL APPLICABILITY

The present invention can be applied to applications in which animportant bank requiring the most significant improvement under presentcircumstances and an important interbank loan in which the importantbank is involved and which requires the most significant improvement aredesignated in order to reduce a systemic risk. The present invention canbe applied to applications in which management of a systemic risk isfacilitated in a financial network. The financial network means, forexample, a graph-like structure representing an interbank transactionrelationship including an interbank loan of funds, as described above.The systemic risk refers to, for example, the risk of collapse of theentire financial network rather than the risk of the bankruptcy of anindividual bank. In other words, the systemic risk refers to, forexample, the risk of occurrence of very serious chain-reactionbankruptcies.

REFERENCE SIGNS LIST

-   -   1 Systemic risk management device    -   1A Systemic risk management device    -   2 Bank data provision device    -   3 Indication device    -   10 Data input unit    -   12 Important bank designation unit    -   13 Important loan designation unit    -   14 Display unit    -   15 Bank data storage unit    -   16 First bankruptcy scale storage unit    -   17 Second bankruptcy scale storage unit    -   100 Systemic risk management system    -   100A Systemic risk management system    -   110 Data input circuit    -   112 Important bank designation circuit    -   113 Important loan designation circuit    -   114 Display circuit    -   115 Bank data storage device    -   116 First bankruptcy scale storage device    -   117 Second bankruptcy scale storage device    -   1000 Computer    -   1001 Processor    -   1002 Memory    -   1003 Storage device    -   1004 I/O interface    -   1005 Storage medium

What is claimed is:
 1. A systemic risk management system comprising: amemory that stores a set of instructions; and at least one firstprocessor configured to execute the set of instructions to: designate animportant bank from a plurality of banks in which an interbank loan ismade based on smallness of a first scale of bankruptcies, the firstscale being a scale of bankruptcies of the plurality of banks due to aninfluence of a failure of a predetermined investment and financingdestination on condition of preventing a bankruptcy of a bank includedin the plurality of banks due to the influence of the failure of thepredetermined investment and financing destination in which investmentand financing are made by at least any one of the plurality of banks;and designate an important interbank loan from at least one interbankloan made by the important bank based on smallness of a second scale ofbankruptcies, the second scale being a scale of bankruptcies of theplurality of banks due to the influence of the failure of thepredetermined investment and financing destination on condition ofpreventing a bankruptcy of the important bank due to a bankruptcy of abank being a borrower of an interbank loan included in the at least oneinterbank loan and the failure of the predetermined investment andfinancing destination.
 2. The systemic risk management system accordingto claim 1, wherein the at least one first processor is furtherconfigured to: derive the first scale of bankruptcies based on bankfinancial data, investment and financing data, and interbank loan dataof the plurality of banks, the bank financial data including an amountof a capital buffer which is a capital that is capable of being used forabsorbing a loss, the investment and financing data including aninvestment and financing amount for each investment and financingdestination, the interbank loan data including an amount of an interbankloan made by each bank as a borrower, and derive the second scale ofbankruptcies based on the bank financial data, the investment andfinancing data, and the interbank loan data of the plurality of banks.3. The systemic risk management system according to claim 1, wherein theat least one first processor is further configured to: calculate a firstindex value representing a scale of bankruptcies of the plurality ofbanks due to the influence of the failure on condition of preventing abankruptcy of a bank included in the plurality of banks due to theinfluence of the failure, and select the important bank from theplurality of banks based on the smallness of a scale of bankruptcies,the scale being represented by the first index value, therebydesignating the important bank.
 4. The systemic risk management systemaccording to claim 1, wherein the at least one first processor isfurther configured to: calculate a second index value representing thesecond scale of bankruptcies of the plurality of banks due to theinfluence of the failure on condition of preventing a bankruptcy of theimportant bank due to a bankruptcy of a bank being a borrower of aninterbank loan included in a plurality of interbank loans made by theimportant bank and the failure, and select the important interbank loanfrom the plurality of interbank loans based on smallness of a scale ofbankruptcies, the scale being represented by the second index value,thereby designating the important interbank loan.
 5. The systemic riskmanagement system according to claim 4, wherein the first index value isany one of: a chain-reaction bankruptcy number which is a count of banksgoing bankrupt due to the failure among the plurality of banks; alarge-asset bank bankruptcy ratio which is a rate of a large-capitalbank in the banks going bankrupt, the large-capital bank being a bank ofwhich a total value of an investment and financing amount and aninterbank loan amount is more than a predetermined value; a leading bankbankruptcy ratio that is a rate of a leading bank in the banks goingbankrupt, the leading bank being a bank of which a rank of magnitude ofthe total value is not less than a predetermined rank; a bankruptcygrowth rate that is a rate of a count of banks going bankrupt due to aloss of interbank loans made to another bank going bankrupt due to thefailure to a count of banks going bankrupt due to a loss of investmentand financing caused by the failure among the plurality of banks; and ato-capital chain-reaction bankruptcy improvement rate that is achain-reaction bankruptcy improvement number per unit of an additionalcapital buffer which is a capital which is capable of being used forabsorbing a loss and is added, thereby being capable of absorbing a lossdue to the bankruptcies of the banks, the chain-reaction bankruptcyimprovement number being a decrement of a count of the chain-reactionbankruptcies on condition that the additional capital buffer is addedfrom a count of the chain-reaction bankruptcies on condition that theadditional capital buffer is not added, and the second index is any oneof the chain-reaction bankruptcies number, the large-asset bankbankruptcy ratio, the bankruptcy growth rate, and the to-capitalchain-reaction bankruptcy improvement rate.
 6. The systemic riskmanagement system according to claim 1, wherein the at least one firstprocessor is further configured to: set an amount obtained by adding anamount that is not less than an amount of a loss due to influence of afailure of an investment and financing destination to the amount of thecapital buffer used for absorbing the loss of the banks as the amount ofthe capital buffer, thereby deriving the first scale of bankruptcies ofbanks, and set an amount obtained by adding an amount of a loss due tothe bankruptcy of the bank that is the borrower of the interbank loanincluded in the at least one interbank loan and a failure of theinvestment and financing destination to the amount of the capital bufferused for absorbing the loss of the important bank as the amount of thecapital buffer, thereby deriving the second scale of bankruptcies ofbanks.
 7. A systemic risk management method comprising: designating animportant bank from a plurality of banks in which an interbank loan ismade based on smallness of a first scale of bankruptcies, the firstscale being a scale of bankruptcies of the plurality of banks due to aninfluence of a failure of a predetermined investment and financingdestination on condition of preventing a bankruptcy of a bank includedin the plurality of banks due to the influence of the failure of thepredetermined investment and financing destination in which investmentand financing are made by at least any one of the plurality of banks;and designating an important interbank loan from at least one interbankloan made by the important bank based on smallness of a second scale ofbankruptcies, the second scale being a scale of bankruptcies of theplurality of banks due to the influence of the failure of thepredetermined investment and financing destination on condition ofpreventing a bankruptcy of the important bank due to a bankruptcy of abank being a borrower of an interbank loan included in the at least oneinterbank loan and the failure of the predetermined investment andfinancing destination.
 8. The systemic risk management method accordingto claim 7, comprising: deriving the first scale of bankruptcies isderived based on bank financial data, investment and financing data, andinterbank loan data of the plurality of banks, the bank financial dataincluding an amount of a capital buffer which is a capital that iscapable of being used for absorbing a loss, the investment and financingdata including an investment and financing amount for each investmentand financing destination, the interbank loan data including an amountof an interbank loan made by each bank as a borrower; and the secondscale of bankruptcies is derived based on the bank financial data, theinvestment and financing data, and the interbank loan data of theplurality of banks.
 9. A non-transitory computer readable storage mediumstoring a systemic risk management program that causes a computer toexecute: important bank designation processing that designates animportant bank from a plurality of banks in which an interbank loan ismade based on smallness of a first scale of bankruptcies, the firstscale being a scale of bankruptcies of the plurality of banks due to aninfluence of a failure of a predetermined investment and financingdestination on condition of preventing a bankruptcy of a bank includedin the plurality of banks due to the influence of the failure of thepredetermined investment and financing destination in which investmentand financing are made by at least any one of the plurality of banks;and important loan designation processing that designates an importantinterbank loan from at least one interbank loan made by the importantbank based on smallness of a second scale of bankruptcies, the secondscale being a scale of bankruptcies of the plurality of banks due to theinfluence of the failure of the predetermined investment and financingdestination on condition of preventing a bankruptcy of the importantbank due to a bankruptcy of a bank being a borrower of an interbank loanincluded in the at least one interbank loan and the failure of thepredetermined investment and financing destination.
 10. Thenon-transitory computer readable storage medium according to claim 9,the storage medium storing the systemic risk management program, whereinthe important bank designation processing derives the first scale ofbankruptcies based on bank financial data, investment and financingdata, and interbank loan data of the plurality of banks, the bankfinancial data including an amount of a capital buffer which is acapital that is capable of being used for absorbing a loss, theinvestment and financing data including an investment and financingamount for each investment and financing destination, the interbank loandata including an amount of an interbank loan made by each bank as aborrower, and the important loan designation processing derives thesecond scale of bankruptcies based on the bank financial data, theinvestment and financing data, and the interbank loan data of theplurality of banks.